Quotation of the Day…
by Don Boudreaux
on November 21, 2022
… is from page 2 of Julian Simon’s posthumously published 1999 book, Hoodwinking the Nation:
Many people have a propensity to compare the present and the future with an ideal state of affairs rather than with the past or with some other feasible state; the present and the future inevitably look bad in such a comparison.
