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Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all. - John Maynard Keynes (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] Nobody 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The architect never believed in the fundamental design. That’s sobering.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

While still flawed and ultimately pale in comparison to socialism, his economic vision was still light years better then the utter dystopian hell we have entered.

[–] ProfessorPuzzleCode 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is not definitely attributed to Keynes, and earlier verions of it by other people paint this in a slightly different way as a positive point, that even nasty people work for the benefit of all. Many versions have been attributed to Keynes, both as a positive and a negative for capitalism.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/02/23/capitalism-motives/?amp=1