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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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The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didnt construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didnt revolutionize the automobile industry that way. – Milton Friedman

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The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. – Milton Friedman

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In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of freedom, like a bastard brother of reform. – Percy Wynham Lewis

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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. – Albert Camus

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