<P> "The rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is an aphorism due to Percy Bysshe Shelley . In A Defence of Poetry (1821, not published until 1840) Shelley remarked that the promoters of utility had </P> <Dl> <Dd> exemplified the saying, "To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away ." The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism . </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> exemplified the saying, "To him that hath, more shall be given; and from him that hath not, the little that he hath shall be taken away ." The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of anarchy and despotism . </Dd> <P> "To him that hath" etc. is a reference to Matthew 25: 29 (the parable of the talents, see also Matthew effect). The aphorism is commonly evoked, with variations in wording, as a synopsis of the effect of free market capitalism producing inequality . </P>

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