Status Updates From The Affluent Society

‘Men of high position are allowed, by a special act of grace, to accommodate their reasoning to the answer they need. Logic is only required in those of lesser rank.’

“There is no chance that monetary policy can have even a minimal effect on consumer spending while its conflict with the machinery of consumer want creation remains unresolved and, in degree, even recognized”

‘Can the bill collector be the central figure in a good society?’

‘One cannot defend production as satisfying wants if that production creates the wants’

I’m enjoying this… but sooooooo much left-branching syntax.

This doesn’t read like something published almost 70 years ago.