Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit. (Edmund Phelps)

Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

Edmund Phelps

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