"it was plain that the rich men he knew were winners in struggles of criminality, of plausible criminality. In other words, triumphant in forms of deceit and hardness of heart considered by the political order as a whole to be productive; kinds of cheating or thieving or (at best) wastefulness which on the whole caused the gross national product to increase."
Saul Bellow, Mr. Sammler's Planet, 1970
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