• Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty. A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.

    Henry Hazlitt: Socialists will often talk as if some form of superbly equalized destitution were preferable to "maldistributed" plenty.  A national income that is rapidly growing in absolute terms for practically everyone will be deplored because it is making the rich richer.
    Henry Hazlitt (1996). “The Conquest of Poverty”