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I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

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Chris Hedges
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: September 18
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Christopher Lynn Hedges
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