Senator Barack Obama, October 30, 2008:
You know I don’t know when, when they decided they wanted to make a virtue out of selfishness.
Adam Smith, 1776:
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
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Does forced redistribution really reduce selfishness? Or just self-reliance?
