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Paul Dirac

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

Paul Dirac

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Paul Dirac is saying that economic problems arise because the system tries to treat two things as equally valuable when they actually are not. He believes it would be wiser to accept their different values from the start instead of forcing equality.

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