This is the day a lot of people go outa their way pretending they're totally down with MLK and that they've always believed in everything he advocated - as long as they can also pretend he never said things like this:
Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system.
-- Martin Luther King
He was engaged in a campaign to support the concept of a Guaranteed Basic Income when he was murdered in Memphis, April 1968
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