Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at th…

P. J. O'Rourke
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Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking. ✨ P. J. O'Rourke (2011). Eat the Rich: A Treatise on Economics, p.159, Pan Macmillan
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