Quotes About Distribution

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you. No matter the population you're studying, they always fit neatly across the standard deviations of the famous bell curve.

The market system artificially creates scarcity by blocking the flow between the source and the consumer.

You must distribute it faster than it grows! If you do not, it will crush you and your children and your children's children.

One day the poor will have nothing left to eat except the rich

What is the point in prosperity, after all, if everyone has it?

Not so much a trickle down as a dragging-along.

They explain that when a popular product is criminalized, it does not disappear. Instead, criminals start to control the supply and sale of the product.

A science is said to be useful if its development tends to accentuate the existing inequalities in the distribution of wealth, or more directly promotes the destruction of human life.

I'm 40 years old. What I have seen my whole life is widening income inequality.

Stories distribute the suffering so that it can be borne.

You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom. - Every one admits that. - Your Socialists don't. - My Socialists do. Yours mayn't; but I strongly suspect yours of being not Socialists, but ninepins, which you have constructed for your own amusement. I can't imagine any living creature who would bowl over quite so easily.

You do admit that, if wealth was divided up equally, in a few years there would be rich and poor again just the same. The hard-working man would come to the top, the wastrel sink to the bottom.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

The poor are poor because the rich are rich.

The world can be changed not by ending suffering, but by a more judicious distribution of it.

what thoughtful rich people call the problem of poverty, thoughtful poor people call with equal justice a problem of riches.

competition policy should embody explicit distributional concerns. It

less inequality is associated with greater macroeconomic stability and more sustainable growth.

Plato, who expressed the view that no one should be more than four times richer than the poorest member of the society.

If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.

Provision was also made for the distribution of Germany's foreign assets among the Allies.

I think the medium or format of distributing things has its own characteristics. I think that an exhibition can communicate certain things that a video can't, and publications communicate that in a different way.

It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.