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.....Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say, Napoleonic times.
..........— Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., (1922–2007), American novelist. Quotation from an essay by the fictional character Howard W. Campbell, Jr., an American-turned-Nazi propagandist, in Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969).
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