"I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge β that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana."
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John Kenneth Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty (1977), p. 84
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