I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you …

Thomas Sowell
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I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. ✨ Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays. Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.
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I have never understood why it is greed to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money. ✨ Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays. Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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