Quotes About Inequality

O, dicho más brutal: ¿por qué no toleramos la desigualdad por géneros o razas pero sí por riqueza?)

La desigualdad conlleva grandes costos de eficiencia porque condiciona el acceso desigual de los agentes económicos a capacidades y oportunidades, y modela reglas del juego e incentivos que se pueden convertir en obstáculo para su participación plena»,

Es cierto que nuestra desigualdad empieza cuando aquellos conquistadores se quedan con todo porque son distintos: que su título para mantener el poder era esa diferencia, esa desigualdad.

Hay sociedades donde los más ricos necesitan que los más pobres sean menos pobres, donde los precisan para crear o consumir las riquezas que los enriquecen. Nuestras economías, basadas en la extracción y exportación de materias primas, pueden funcionar más allá de esos millones de personas que no son necesarias ni para producir ni para consumir. Solo se necesita contenerlas:

Esto es el mundo al revés, amigo. En cambio de dárselo a la gente lo tirán acá al basural, para que no les bajen los precios. Si serán hijos de puta.

este país el sector que más creció en los últimos veinte años no es la tecnología, no es el software; es la desigualdad, que creció más que en ningún otro momento de nuestra historia.

La desigualdad es esa manera tan absolutamente natural en que una empresaria colombiana, un profesor mexicano, un hacendado salvadoreño dicen María sírvenos el café.

Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved...stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.

Here one has the perfect example of justice: the men have kept their women enslaved—the Arabs more than the Christian Copts—kept them stupid and limited and apart, for their male vanity and power; result: the dull women bore the daylights out of the men.

Richard had not been minded to levy any tax at all upon the common people. "Why should they pay of the little they have, when there is immeasurable wealth in the hands of a few nobles?

We're cheaply produced and we suck.

There may be liberty and justice for all, but there are tax breaks only for some.

Given our current system of property ownership, it makes sense that we would see greater wealth inequality in places where there's greater population density because land values command a greater percentage of the financial resources in the denser areas and only flow into the hands of those who own land.

Human beings need land even more so than they need money; the monopoly of land - not the monopoly of money - is the primary driver of poverty and inequality. Once we understand that the issue is lack of affordable access to land, and therefore to community, we understand why the value of land has to be shared.

Fred Harrison claimed in his book Ricardo's Law: House Prices and the Great Tax Clawback System that property owners are generally able to clawback their cumulative income tax payments through gains made from land values, while renters are financially penalized by income taxes. Thus, the progressive income tax is a scam by which the poor subsidize the rich.

Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service the payment of goods and services when proportionally more income is used to pay monopolized rent for land. Essentially, whenever property owners collect rent from rising land values, fewer financial resources are left over for wages and capital investments, and this dynamic can effectively put society on the fast track toward social decline and wealth inequality.

Social reform aims to improve the condition of the poor by worsening the condition of the rich.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects

and yet neither the bishops nor canons care how the poor people live or die, for whom nevertheless Christ has died, and who are not permitted to hear Him speak with them as the true Shepherd with His sheep.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.

It was argued that the Negro was inferior by nature because of Noah's curse upon the children of Ham.... The greatest blasphemy of the whole ugly process was that the white man ended up making God his partner in the exploitation of the Negro.

Black Power alone is no more insurance against social injustice than white power.

Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums.

But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society.