Ludwig von Mises Quote
Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills a function in the life of the social organism. He sets an example of luxury that awakens in the multitude a consciousness of new needs and gives industry the incentive to fulfill them.
The free and prosperous commonwealth: an exposition of the ideas of classical liberalism (ed. 1962)
