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Their wordsI am squarely in the camp of changing how the system works, not overthrowing it.
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The problem is not the free market but market rules rigged for large corporations and the rich.
Their wordsThe problem is not that we have a free market economy, but that the rules of that market are rigged to benefit large corporations and the rich, not farmers, growers, workers and citizens.
Their wordsWe underestimate the power of ad hoc, well-designed reforms.
Their wordsBut until such knowledge comes, you should seek to reform rather than to abolish, lest what rises from the ruins is worse than the edifice torn down.
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