Just to avoid confusion, the page & excerpts you cite are from an 1800's French economist named Bastiat, not from the legendary 1980's neo-expressionist painte

Just to avoid confusion, the page & excerpts you cite are from an 1800's French economist named Bastiat, not from the legendary 1980's neo-expressionist painter Basquiat. Since this thread is about art, I figured people might read the name Basquiat in your comment and think that he wrote the quote you cite, which would in my mind give it greater relevance to this discussion than it has.