The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being. (John Kenneth Galbraith)

The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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