“My observation and experience of all the flourishing nations everywhere, what is taking place, so help me God, is nothing but a conspiracy of the rich…these depraved creatures, in their insatiable greed, have divided among themselves all the goods which would have sufficed for everyone…where everything belongs to everyone, no one doubts that (as long as care is taken that the public storehouses are full) nothing whatever will be lacking for anyone for his own use. For the distribution of good is not niggardly; no one is a pauper or beggar there, and though no one has anything, all are rich.
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) Utopia (Yale University Press, 2001) 130-132.