Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by brightbeige 128 days ago
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - (probably not) John Steinbeck

I guess with inflation we can update the quote to “temporarily embarrassed billionaires”

1 comments

Socialism never took off in America because Americans know that disincentivizing work shrinks the economy and makes everyone poorer.