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This paradox highlights the ways in which even those who claim to value equality and justice can perpetuate systems of inequality.\n\n**How to Use This**\nIn today's professional and creative environments, this insight can be applied by recognizing and challenging the power structures that maintain privilege and inequality. By acknowledging the ways in which our own systems and institutions can perpetuate inequality, we can work to create more just and equitable systems that truly reflect the values of democracy and self-governance.",{"id":24,"quote_text":25,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":26,"source":27,"quote_tag":28,"commentary":9},3119582,"Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we’re a small country with no natural resources. 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