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"Capital [...] allows its actual movement to be determined as much and as little by the sight of the coming degradation and final depopulation of the human race, as by the probable fall of the earth into the sun. In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but everyone hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in secure hands. Après moi, la déluge! is the watchword of every capitalist and of every capitalist nation."
- Karl Marx, Capital, Volume I, Chapter 10, Section 5, 1867
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