Our readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Thomas Paine said
happiness What makes a life go well: whether it is meaning, love, virtue, enough money, or simply expecting less.
government What states are for and what they are worse at than markets and networks: legitimacy, moral hazard, and who may be entrusted with power.
When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government.
Where this was said
↗Rights of Man (1791-1792)gutenberg.org
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