We could manage to survive without money changers and stockbrokers. We should find it harder to do without miners, steel workers and those who cultivate the land.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Society depends more on producers like miners and farmers than on financial intermediaries.
- In plain terms
- Workers are more important than bankers.
- What can you take from it?
- Value production over finance.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Who truly drives the economy?
Another view
Finance plays a role in resource allocation.
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