“I concluded from my reading of classical economics that the creation of poverty is as fully intentional as the creation of wealth. Progress is dynamic, self-generating, unpredictable. Poverty is static, effectively resourceless, subject to interests that are not its own, therefore valuable to those interests. Early writers on the subject were unembarrassed by this binary, which is so directly the offspring of serfdom that they took it as natural and inevitable and declared it a law. Subsequent writers have treated it as law indeed.” – Harper’s