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artifex  ·  4803 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Elizabeth Warren Quote about the Social Contract Implied in Success
When, exactly, did doing good for society come to equal paying off a gigantic, intrusive, abusive global empire?

Here's a critique on why this is just the newest in the emotionally-laden salvo against conventional property rights: http://mises.org/daily/5699/Elizabeth-Warrens-Blank-Check

And FYI, this: "young and liberal, you have no heart. Old and conservative, you have no brain" comes from Winston Churchill, where the terms liberal and conservative carried much different connotations. In the words of Inigo Montoya, that phrase, "I do not think it means what you think it means."