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“Too often a false contrast is made between the impersonal marketplace and the supposedly compassionate policies of various government programs. But both systems face the same scarcity of resources and both systems make choices within the constraints of that scarcity. The difference is that one system involves each individual making choices for him/herself, while the other system involves a small number of people making choices for millions of others.”
-Thomas Sowell
Basic Economics
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