• In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.

    William Graham Sumner: In England pensions used to be given to aristocrats, because aristocrats had political influence, in order to corrupt them. Here pensions are given to the great democratic mass, because they have political power, to corrupt them.
    William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.123, Ludwig von Mises Institute