Income is not distributed. Newspapers are distributed, Social Security checks are distributed. Income is not distributed. People earn it directly from those to whom they provide some good or service.
— Thomas Sowell, Uncommon Knowledge - Thomas Sowell on the second edition of Intellectuals and Society (2012)
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