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What kind of society isnt structured on greed? The problem of soci

What kind of society isnt structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of a system. – Milton Friedman

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. – Milton Friedman

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