![Two-thirds of a century after [The Road to Serfdom] got written, hindsight confirms how inaccurate its innuendo about the future turned out to be.](/assets/img/quote-photos/two-thirds-of-a-century-after-the-road-to-serfdom-got-written-hindsight-confir.jpg)
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