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Quotes About Distribution

We must make both our distributional and democratic systems work for our communities.
~ Sharan Burrow
We're grappling with the same issue facing all advanced economies - how to revive growth and distribute its fruits more fairly. An America that can tackle that problem head-on can perhaps help revive a stagnant global economy.
~ David Ignatius
I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.
~ Clay Shirky
Regarding KERS, I have mixed feelings. As I am a tall and relatively heavy person I have disadvantages regarding the weight and consequently the weight distribution of the car. But on the other hand KERS could be a big advantage because of the boost.
~ Robert Kubica
The tax code will never be simplified in our lifetime because it's not about taxes; it's about congressmen distributing the pork.
~ Rita Mae Brown
I have therefore prepared personally vith my own hands a limited qvantity of Delayed Action Mouse-Maker vhich I vill distrrribute to the ancient vuns before you leave the hotel.
~ Roald Dahl
Bio-survival anxiety will only permanently disappear when world-wide wealth has reached a level, and a distribution, where, without totalitarianism, everyone has enough tickets.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
In the quarter century between 1979 and 2005, average after-tax income (adjusted for inflation) grew by $900 a year for the bottom fifth of American households, by $8,700 a year for the middle fifth, and by $745,000 a year for the top 1 percent of households.
~ Robert D. Putnam
These two types of equality are obviously related, because the distribution of income in one generation may affect the distribution of opportunity in the next generation—but they are not the same thing.
~ Robert D. Putnam
I learned, then, beyond question, that if all the property in the world were distributed, and an equal share given to everyone, the bulk of mankind would soon be destitute, and a few would have everything.
~ Kenneth Roberts
Efficiency, n. The speed and frictionlessness with which money moves from the poor to the rich.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
But at this point the four hundred richest people on the planet owned half the planet's wealth, and the top one percent owned fully eighty percent of the world's wealth. For them it wasn't so bad.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
The three richest people in the world possess more financial assets than all the people in the forty-eight poorest countries added together. The wealthiest one percent of the human population owns more than the bottom seventy percent. And
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
And the unequal accumulation of wealth by the elites continued.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
There was scientifically supported evidence to show that if the Earth's available resources were divided up equally among all eight billion humans, everyone would be fine.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
There was scientifically supported evidence to show that if the Earth's available resources were divided up equally among all eight billion humans, everyone would be fine. They would all be at adequacy, and the scientific evidence very robustly supported the contention that people living at adequacy, and confident they would stay there (a crucial point), were healthier and thus happier than rich people. So the upshot of that equal division would be an improvement
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
There was scientifically supported evidence to show that if the Earth's available resources were divided up equally among all eight billion humans, everyone would be fine. They would all be at adequacy, and the scientific evidence very robustly supported the contention that people living at adequacy, and confident they would stay there (a crucial point), were healthier and thus happier than rich people.
~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.
~ Joe Budden
Saying of the ProphetDistributionGod it is who gives: I am only a distributor.
~ Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
Making stuff - that's easy. Supply chain, now that is hard.
~ Yossi Sheffi
Today, the richest 1 percent own half the world's wealth. Even more alarmingly, the richest one hundred people together own more than the poorest four billion.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
As of early 2016, the sixty-two richest people in the world were worth as much as the poorest 3.6 billion people! Since the world's population is about 7.2 billion, it means that these sixty-two billionaires together hold as much wealth as the entire bottom half of humankind.37 The
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Hammurabi's Code was based on the premise that if the king's subjects all accepted their positions in the hierarchy and acted accordingly, the empire's million inhabitants would be able to cooperate effectively. Their society could then produce enough food for its members, distribute it efficiently, protect itself against its enemies, and expand its territory so as to acquire more wealth and better security.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The economic pie of 2014 is far larger than the pie of 1500, but it is distributed so unevenly that many African peasants and Indonesian labourers return home after a hard day's work with less food than did their ancestors 500 years ago.
~ Yuval Noah Harari