JasonB

Favorite book: "Progress and Poverty" by Henry George http://henrygeorge.org/pcontents.htm

Quote from "Introduction: The Problem of Poverty Amidst Progress":

"So long as the increased wealth that progress brings goes to building great fortunes and increasing luxury, progress is not real. When the contrast between the haves and have-nots grows ever sharper, progress cannot be permanent. To educate people condemned to poverty only makes them restless. To base a state with glaring social inequalities on political institutions where people are supposed to be equal is to stand a pyramid on its head. Eventually, it will fall.

"This relation of poverty to progress is the great question of our time. It is the riddle that the Sphinx of Fate puts to us. If we do not answer correctly, we will be destroyed."

Joined Oct. 14, 2011