Some of these situations may, no doubt, deserve to be preferred to others, but none of them can deserve to be pursued with that passionate ardor which drives us to violate the rules either of prudence or of justice, or to corrupt the future tranquility of our minds, either by shame from the remembrance of our own folly, or by remorse for the horror of our own injustice."
var faderen til den moderne kapitalisme, Adam Smith, og han sagde dette. Dette er værd at overveje: "Den store kilde til både elendighed og forstyrrelser af menneskeliv synes at opstå fra at overvurdere forskellen mellem én permanent situation og en anden... Nogle af disse situationer fortjener uden tvivl at blive foretrukket frem for andre, men ingen af dem kan fortjene at blive forfulgt