"It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the [environmentalists at] the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground not [bureaucrats at] the Federal Aviation Administration.
"It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of [people] by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader. Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing 'compassion' for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.”~ Thomas Sowell, from his 2010 column 'The Real Public Service'
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Mankind's real benefactors
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Cheers Peter. This is very handy. I reckon one in about every 100 replies to a comment praising SpaceX and Musk is that drooling 'he's an egomaniac, why doesn't he feed the poor'.
Off to place this quotation at the bottom of this morning's thread.
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