"Gone are the days when the upper classes……" — Ha-Joon Chang
"Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy."
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51 Quotes by Ha-Joon Chang
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