A Quote by Zygmunt Bauman

The greatest economic minds of the 19th century, all of them without exception, considered economic growth as a temporary necessity. When all human needs are satisfied, then we will have a stable economy, reproducing every year the same things. We will stop straining ourselves worrying about development or growth. How naïve they were! One more reason to be reluctant about predicting the future. No doubt they were wiser than me, but even they made such a mistake!

Zygmunt Bauman

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Zygmunt Bauman
Polish - Sociologist
November 19, 1925 - January 9, 2017

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