Material Poverty provides the incentive to change precisely in situations where there is little margin for experiments. Material Prosperity removes the incentive just when it might be safe to take a chance.

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
The End of Laissez-Faire, ch. 5 (1926)

 
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