As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.


Ill Fares The Land: A Treatise On Our Present Discontents (ed. Penguin UK, 2011) - ISBN: 9780141962696

Tony Judt Quotes

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed:...

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed:...

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed:...

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed:...