Quotes About Inequality

História foi algo que um grupo muito pequeno de pessoas fez, enquanto todos os outros aravam os campos e carregavam baldes de água

In the twenty-first century, those who ride the train of progress will acquire divine abilities of creation and destruction, while those left behind will face extinction.

Property is a prerequisite for long-term inequality.

Throughout this book, I often use the first person to speak about the future of humankind. I talk about what 'we' need to do about 'our' problems. But maybe there are no 'we'. Maybe one of 'our' biggest problems is that different human groups have completely different futures. Maybe in some parts of the world you should teach your children to write computer codes, while in others you had better teach them to draw fast and shoot straight.

it is overly concerned about a potential war between robots and humans, when in fact we need to fear a conflict between a small superhuman elite empowered by algorithms, and a vast underclass of disempowered Homo sapiens.

La fusión de la infotecnología y la biotecnología puede hacer que muy pronto miles de millones de humanos queden fuera del mercado de trabajo y socavar tanto la libertad como la igualdad. Los algoritmos de macrodatos pueden crear dictaduras digitales en las que todo el poder esté concentrado en las manos de una élite minúscula al tiempo que la mayor parte de la gente padezca no ya explotación, sino algo muchísimo peor: irrelevancia.

Perhaps in the twenty-first century populist revolts will be staged not against an economic elite that exploits people, but against an economic elite that does not need them any more.

The farm thus became the prototype of new societies, complete with puffed-up masters, inferior races fit for exploitation, wild beasts ripe for extermination and a great God above that gives His blessing to the entire arrangement.

The rich are taught to disregard the poor, while the poor are taught to disregard their true interests. No amount of self-reflection or psychotherapy will help, because the psychotherapists are also working for the capitalist system.

Even more alarmingly, the richest one hundred people together own more than the poorest four billion.

Indeed, in most countries today overeating has become a far worse problem than famine. In the eighteenth century Marie Antoinette allegedly advised the starving masses that if they ran out of bread, they should just eat cake instead. Today, the poor are following this advice to the letter. 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

Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

If, in British-ruled India, an Untouchable, a Brahmin, a Catholic Irishman and a Protestant Englishman had somehow developed exactly the same business acumen, they still would not have had the same chance of becoming rich. The economic game was rigged by legal restrictions and unofficial glass ceilings.

Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.

Se g?sesc oameni în sat care, la opt guri, au o singur? lingur?. ?i-o trec din mîn? în mîn?. Noi, se cheam? c? sîntem oameni cu stare. Avem patru-cinci linguri în cas?...

?tim ce e botni?a. Punem botni?e boilor cînd r?li??m porumbul pe mo?iile boiere?ti. Altfel boii ar lua între buze vîrfurile porumbului. Le punem botni?e cînd îi înjug?m la secer?toare, vara, la seceri?, s? nu m?nînce cumva cîteva spice de grîu boieresc. Acum boierul a adus ?i pentru noi botni?e, s? nu-i gust?m strugurii.

The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the "American dream"-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system

The petty thief is imprisoned but the big thief becomes a feudal lord.

Capitalism has always been a failure for the lower classes. It is now beginning to fail for the middle classes.

Behind the deceptive words designed to entice people into supporting violence -- words like democracy, freedom, self-defense, national security -- there is the reality of enormous wealth in the hands of a few, while billions of people in the world are hungry, sick, homeless.

As you know, the founding fathers were not a multicultural group. There were no women, no Native Americans, no blacks, and virtually no poor people.

Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance, rather than as problems of inequality, exploitation, or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle, or even armed struggle?

This proletarianization of the lower salaried bourgeoisie is accompanied by an excess in the opposite direction: the irrationally high pay of top managers and bankers, a level of remuneration that is economically irrational since, as investigations in the US have demonstrated, it tends to be inversely proportional to the company's success.

It is more satisfying to sacrifice oneself for the poor victim than to enable the other to overcome their victim status and perhaps become even more successful than ourselves.