Quotes About Inequality

Karl Marx began making predictions about the consequences of capitalism. He saw in the increase in the production of goods a decrease in the value of labor and a widening inequality between the rich and the poor.

POPULISTS' GRIEVANCES WERE many, and bitter. Their best-founded objection was their concern about the federal government's support of the interests of businesses over those of labor.

Facebook and its counterparts operate more like churches than courts; they are subject to influence by states and the wealthy, and all too content with disregarding the needs of their subjects in favor of those with power.

Librarians were paid shit and required a masters; chefs traveled the world. Cooking school it was.

there's a simpler reason that white collars hate white trash—rednecks were the ones who beat them up in high school. That's usually the only time white-collar white liberals were forced to mingle with white trash. High school was probably the most egalitarian social experiment they were ever required to make, and they haven't stopped running from it yet.

Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.

Stupid f***ing white man.

God's connection to the poor and suffering is so deep that a response of compassion is insufficient. What might this response be?

THE FOUNDATIONAL BELIEF OF THE RULING ELITE IS THAT THEY were born to rule, while the vast majority of the populace is born to slavery, in one form or another. They

the coffers of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy families who control the planet's natural resources.

When the daily number of words for each group of children is projected across four years, the four-year-old child from the professional family will have heard 45 million words, the working-class child 26 million, and the welfare child only 13 million.

Most Americans believe that if you work hard and full-time, you should not be poor. But the truth is that many working families are, and many low-income breadwinners must hold down multiple jobs just to survive.

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers. This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics it's something to do with the social structure of society.

Machismo itself had turned against the machos, made man a prisoner of himself, obliged not to cry, not to fail to get it up, not to give in, not to say uncle…. Fear, your name is macho, something the Bard never said, but that I do. How many women have screwed the man they wanted, simply because he couldn't refuse a woman?" [House of the Fortunate Buddha]

Tudo neste mundo se consegue com trabalho e quem é preto consegue menos com muito mais trabalho, então tem de trabalhar multiplicado e trabalhar em todos os trabalhos e trabalhar o tempo todo e trabalhar sem distrair e sempre acreditar que alguém quer tomar o resultado do trabalho.

If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

Survival is something only the rich take lightly

A sated man cannot understand a starving one

As she traveled down the lane between the rows of parked cars, she noticed a conspicuous absence of new or expensive vehicles. Teaching didn't pay well enough for any luxuries, and Hannah thought that was a shame. There was something really wrong with  the system when a teacher could make more money flipping burgers at a fast-food chain.

Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.

If white men could have a playground, this would be it.