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*"I am skeptical about the notion of 'higher pleasures' and about the idea that rights, self-esteem and 'dignity' are inherently good… I worry when privileged social reformers fuss about providing less privileged people with self-esteem, dignity and other intangibles because these goods are cheap whereas material improvement and changes to the policies and social practices that lock people into lives of poverty and drudgery are expensive and difficult to achieve."*

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