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"Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt."
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Source: Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.80, Cambridge University Press
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