Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 380 of the 2016 second edition of Thomas Sowell’s excellent volume Wealth, Poverty and Politics:

The fortune made by Henry Ford was an incidental by-product of the historic expansion of productivity that expanded the lives of millions. Why third parties should imagine themselves entitled to intervene in such processes, to which they contributed nothing, and to preempt the decisions of others – decisions for which the interventionists pay no price if they are wrong – is one of the great mysteries of our time.