We live in “the worst of all possible worlds [. . .]: if it were slightly worse, it could no longer persist. Consequently, a worse world would be completely impossible”
#Schopenhauer (WWR II, 598)
“Those who want to ‘spread the wealth’ almost invariably seek to concentrate the power. It happens too often, and in too many different countries around the world, to be a coincidence. Which is more dangerous, inequalities of wealth or concentrations of power?”
— Thomas Sowell