And back to this radio program today you know Wagner always a great pleasure to speak with you sir great pleasure to be with the image that quote I just read out in this issue over who controls the surplus I guess controls society is this a cycle that kicks off that we ve seen ever since in history Oh I don t know about cycle I think I put it slightly differently because I don t think in the period since then we have ever really been in a position where we haven t had an elite which is creaming all the bulk of the us and then using the same as being produced by society to engage in various forms of competition I think have been moments in time over the last let s say 5000 years when the proportion of the available wealth going to the common people the ordinary people has been somewhat higher there have been periods in other words where the cost saves in society have been less Mog and they have even been moments . Where the very existence of cost to society has been called into questio
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