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on average we’re owned by the planet Mars

These accounts are certainly not perfect. For example, at the world level, the net financial position is negative overall, which is logically impossible unless we assume that on average we’re owned by the planet Mars. More likely, this contradiction suggests that a nonnegligible share of financial …

—p.78 Chronicles: On Our Political and Economic Crisis Japan: Private Wealth, Public Debts (78) by Thomas Piketty
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it's called theft

It needs to be said clearly: letting countries that grew rich thanks to intra-European trade siphon off their neighbors’ tax base has absolutely nothing to do with free markets. It’s called theft. And lending money to people who’ve stolen from us without asking anything in return so as to ensure it…

—p.76 The Scandal of the Irish Bank Bailout (75) by Thomas Piketty
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