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“No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.” quote by Thomas Piketty — Download Open image

“No hypocrisy is too great when economic and financial elites are obliged to defend their interest.”

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“I belong to a generation that came of age listening to news of the collapse of the Communist dicatorships and never felt the slightest…

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Without precisely defined sources, methods, and concepts, it is possible to see absolutely everything and its opposite.

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“the population of the world grew at an average annual rate of barely 0.8 percent between 1700 and 2012.”

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I'm not as pessimistic as what a number of people seem to believe.

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