Somehow one of my favorite quotes has gone missing and it’s ticking me off. Wouldn’t bother me if I could recall it sufficiently but I can’t and I don’t remember who said it.
Have you any recollection of a quote that indicated if all money was redistributed evenly it would eventually return to the original holders.
It’s important because it’s profound and if I found out it is one of the things wiped from existence by big nanny it couldn’t piss me off more.
I remember the quote, but don’t have a source.
If all the money and property in the world were divided up equally at, say, 3 o’clock in the afternoon, by 3.30pm there would already be notable differences in the financial conditions of the recipients. Within that first 30 minutes, some adults would have lost their share. Some would have gambled theirs away and some would have been swindled or cheated out of their portion (thereby making some others richer). The disparity would increase with growing momentum as time went on. After 90 days, the differences would be staggering. And, I’m willing to wager that, within a year or two at the most, the distribution of wealth would conform to patterns almost identical with those that had previously prevailed.
John Paul Getty