There are no solutions, only trade offs. – Thomas Sowell
Only Trade Offs
In many ways, Sowell is speaking to the same issues as Frederick Douglass in yesterday’s quote that progress requires trade offs.
We believe Frederick Douglass when he spoke about progress requiring struggle and Sowell similarly is saying there are no quick fixes to society’s problems, just trade offs to incrementally achieve goals.
Sowell is an American economist and senior fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. Sowell was born in North Carolina, but grew up in Harlem, New York. He dropped out of Stuyvesant High School and served in the Marine Corps during the Korean War.