Quotes About Inequality

A common saying among European soldiers facing African enemies was, 'Come what may, we have machine guns, and they don't.

Similarly, if in 2070 you tell the lower classes that they enjoy better healthcare than in 2017, it might be very cold comfort to them, because they would be comparing themselves to the upgraded superhumans who dominate the world.

Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land by the sweat of their brows. The extra they produced fed the tiny minority of elites – kings, government officials, soldiers, priests, artists and thinkers – who fill the history books. History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets. An

Dinheiro gera dinheiro, e pobreza gera pobreza. Educação gera educação, e ignorância gera ignorância. Os que foram vítimas da história uma vez tendem a ser vitimados novamente. E aqueles que a história privilegiou tendem a ser privilegiados novamente.

These fears were substantiated by scientific studies that 'proved' that blacks were indeed less educated, that various diseases were more common among them, and that their crime rate was far higher (the studies ignored the fact that these 'facts' resulted from discrimination against blacks).

La historia de la Unión Soviética del siglo XX fue moldeada en gran parte por el intento comunista de superar la desigualdad, pero no tuvo éxito.

People are egalitarian by nature, and unequal societies can never function well due to resentment and dissatisfaction.

All wealth and power might be concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite, while most people will suffer not from exploitation, but from something far worse - irrelevance.

Açl?k çeken çocuklar?n özgürlü?ünden söz edilemez

Yet it is an iron rule of history that every imagined hierarchy disavows its fictional origins and claims to be natural and inevitable. For

What Rwanda earned from an entire year of looting Congolese coltan, the Chinese earn in a single day of peaceful commerce.

A revolução tecnológica pode, em breve, deixar milhões de seres humanos fora do mercado de trabalho e criar uma gigantesca classe social inútil, levando a convulsões sociais e políticas que nenhuma ideologia existente sabe como gerir.

It was not food shortages that caused most of history's wars and revolutions

How do you start a working-class revolution without a working class?

As algorithms push humans out of the job market, wealth and power might become concentrated in the hands of the tiny elite that owns the all-powerful algorithms, creating unprecedented social and political inequality.

Money comes to money, and poverty to poverty. Education comes to education, and ignorance to ignorance.

In medieval Europe, aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries, whereas peasants lived frugally, minding every penny. Today, the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.

The ancient Chinese believed that when the goddess Nü Wa created humans from earth, she kneaded aristocrats from fine yellow soil, whereas commoners were formed from brown mud.

Si los nuevos tratamientos para alargar la vida y mejorar las condiciones físicas y cognitivas acaban siendo caros, la humanidad podría dividirse en castas biológicas.

In the twenty-first century we might witness the creation of a massive new unworking class: people devoid of any economic, political or even artistic value, who contribute nothing to the prosperity, power and glory of society.

The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me' (Mark 14:7).

Yet it might be poised to create the most unequal of all societies.

Whereas the rich residents of Beverly Hills eat lettuce salad and steamed tofu with quinoa, in the slums and ghettos the poor gorge on Twinkie cakes, Cheetos, hamburgers and pizza.

The economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants and Indonesian labourers return home after a hard day's work with less food than did their ancestors 500 years ago.