Quotes About Wealth

The Democratic Party and even the Democratic Left are not going to tell people, 'Look, your problem is that, back in the 1970s, we took part in a major process of the financialization of the economy and the hollowing out of the productive system. So your wages and incomes have stagnated for thirty years, while that wealth is produced in a very few pockets. Those are our policies.' They're not going to tell them that. No, there is no real Left now.

Kill the rich, fuck the middle class, marry the poor! Chomsky out!

By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show.

At their most eloquent, proponents of neoliberalism sound as if they are doing poor people, the environment, and everybody else a tremendous service as they enact policies on behalf of the wealthy few. The

Chomsky also reveals how neoliberalism is hardly a new thing, but merely the current version of the battle for the wealthy few to circumscribe the political rights and civic powers of the many. Chomsky

One is rapidly widening wealth and income inequality. US wealth increased by eight and a half trillion dollars in 2017, with the richest 2 percent getting about $1.15 trillion. That figure is more than the total cost of Medicaid and the complete safety net

there's no law of nature which says that control over capital has to be in a few hands-that's like saying political power has to be in a few hands. Why? There wasn't a law that said that the king and nobles had to run everything, and there isn't a law that says that corporate owners and managers have to run everything either. These are social arrangements. They developed historically, they can be changed historically.

But from the point of view of the masters of mankind, it doesn't matter much—"as long as we make plenty of profit tomorrow, who cares if our grandchildren won't have a world to live in?

As always in the past, one can choose to be a democrat in Jefferson's sense, or an aristocrat. The latter path offers rich rewards, given the locus of wealth, privilege and power, and the ends it naturally seeks. The other path is one of struggle, often defeat, but also rewards that cannot be imagined by those who succumb to 'the New Spirit of the Age: Gain Wealth, forgetting all but Self.

The most influential of the Framers, James Madison, captured the dominant theme when he instructed the Convention that the government must "protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.

As far as money and politics are concerned, it's hard to beat the comment of the great political financier, Mark Hanna. About a century ago, he was asked what was important in politics. He answered, "The first is money, the second one is money and I've forgotten what the third one is.

Civil society is hardly more than a conspiracy by the rich to guarantee their plunder.

En Estados Unidos, el país más rico del mundo, que posee ventajas sin igual e instituciones democráticas estables, pero que a la vez está, más que ninguna otra sociedad, bajo el dominio de los hombres de negocios.

In a socialist country you can get rich by providing necessities, while in a capitalist country you can get rich by providing luxuries.

I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.

It looks like Armani and Cartier went to war.

Anyone who said money didn't matter had never had to count the coins that fell between the cushions of the couch.

We're going to be rich. Huh? Forgot. You're already rich. I'm going to be rich, and you'll be richer okay I'm serious. We've just discover a non-fail motivation for exercise. Hot jungle sex. We'll be Bill Gates rich. We'll write a book. There'll be DVDs and infomercials. America, then the world, will become buff and sexually satisfied. And they'll have us to thank.

You paid off a million dollars since January?" Viola shook her head. "That must've been one holy hell of a yard sale.

Shelby trailed off when she spotted the goldfish swimming in circles inside the Waterford. Well, he's come up in the world, she said with a jerky laugh. I don't think he appreciates it.

Coffee, Chocolate, Men . . . Some things are just better rich.

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Twenty-five thousand," Maggie murmured. A tidy sum, even tidier ten years ago. "You're telling me you think the money was the motive for murder?" "Money's always a motive for murder, and it's a loose end.

checkered past. I know about these jewels the same way I