Quotes About Capitalism

Those who condemn modern capitalist societies for callousness toward the poor are probably unaware of how little pre-capitalist societies of the past spent on poor relief. It's not just that they had less to spend in absolute terms; they spent a smaller proportion of their wealth. (2010s USA would be considered uber-socialist to 1960s USA).

Quienes condenan a las modernas sociedades capitalistas por su insensibilidad hacia los pobres probablemente ignoran lo poco que las sociedades precapitalistas del pasado invertían en el alivio de la pobreza.

Those who condemn modern capitalist societies for callousness toward the poor are probably unaware of how little the pre-capitalist societies of the past spent on poor relief.

I love capitalism. It rewards me for being brave - it awards me for being innovative and thinking out of the box.

I love America. We've got the only system that works - it keeps everyone hustling.

I came to understand, through the great George Orwell, that much of such thinking found its motivation in hatred of the rich and successful, instead of true regard for the poor. Besides, the socialists were more intrinsically capitalist than the capitalists. They believed just as strongly in money. They just thought that if different people had the money, the problems plaguing humanity would vanish.

They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom.

This kind of oversimplification and falsification is particularly typical of ideologues. They adopt a single axiom: government is bad, immigration is bad, capitalism is bad, patriarchy is bad. Then they filter and screen their experiences and insist ever more narrowly that everything can be explained by that axiom. They believe, narcissistically, underneath all that bad theory, that the world could be put right, if only they held the controls.

Money is the oxygen of capitalism and I wanna breathe more than any man alive.

La visión del mundo que pretendían establecer los norteamericanos se basaba en la convicción de la superioridad del «modo de vida americano»,[35] asociada a la idea de que su componente religioso era una garantía de su ventaja moral sobre «el comunismo ateo».

el objetivo fundamental de la guerra fría fue en realidad, por una y otra parte, el de asegurar y extender a escala mundial un determinado orden político, económico y social, disfrazándolo como un combate entre «el mundo libre» y el «socialismo».

Nunca se ha empleado, en cambio, el término «capitalismo», que era el que usaban para definirlo sus enemigos del llamado bando socialista. Incluso hoy, al cabo de tantos años de acabada la guerra fría, se mantiene el tabú:

Marxism is essentially a product of the bourgeois mind.

Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest.

Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was.

Part of the reason for this is that much of America's inequality is the result of market distortions, with incentives directed not at creating new wealth but at taking it from others.

it's easy to get rich by getting a state asset at a deep discount.

The environments that are the most hostile from the standpoint of rationality are those that are the most commercial.

When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in on every decent impulse and every human tragedy.

Economies about money are called market economies. But we use the term in a more abstract way to refer to any kind of system in which resources—of any type—can be produced, exchanged, and consumed.

City-sized shopping malls were erected in the blink of an eye, and storefronts spread across planets like time-lapse footage of mold devouring an orange.

I thought. You're going to turn it into a fascist corporate theme park

Capitalism subordinates men to machines instead of using machines to liberate men from the burden of mechanical and repetitive work.