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Kevin O\u2019Brien writes:<\/p>\n

On a recent blog post<\/a>, I said, \u201cThe economy was made for man, not man for the economy.\u201d Reader Manny replied,<\/p>\n
\u201cThe economy is not made for man \u2026 If you find it flawed, then fix mankind.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Virtually every monstrous evil inflicted on the human race in the past century was committed by people who thought \u201cThis diagram is not made for man, but man for the diagram\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kevin O\u2019Brien writes: On a recent blog post, I said, \u201cThe economy was made for man, not man for the economy.\u201d Reader Manny replied, \u201cThe economy is not made for man \u2026 If you find it flawed, then fix mankind.\u201d Virtually every monstrous evil inflicted on the human race in the past century was committed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,292],"class_list":["post-41261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-doings-on-other-blogs","tag-ideology-is-heresy"],"yoast_head":"\nIdeologues see diagrams, not human beings<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kevin O'Brien writes: On a recent blog post, I said, "The economy was made for man, not man for the economy." 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