Classical liberal: "Truly sterile class is the idle." Libertarian: "There must be a tolerance for the idle rich." http://coreyrobin.com/2014/04/22/classical-liberalism-%E2%89%A0-libertarianism-vol-2/ …
@CoreyRobin @normative @billmon1 Missed that FB discussion. I always found those lines in 3rd Man to be clever but glib.
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@HeerJeet@normative@billmon1 Well, it's essentially the thesis of The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. And some Nietzsche. -
@CoreyRobin@normative@billmon1 Totally plausible that Welles read Burckhardt. He was far-ranging reader.
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