Quotes About Distribution

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

Justice is not only about the right way to distribute things. It is also about the right way to value things.

Subprime mortgage lending was still a trivial fraction of the U.S. credit markets—a few tens of billions in loans each year—but its existence made sense, even to Steve Eisman. "I thought it was partly a response to growing income inequality," he said. "The distribution of income in this country was skewed and becoming more skewed, and the result was that you have more subprime customers.

The real sin of revolutionaries, communist or not, was that they championed the laboring classes against the wealthy few. They advocated changes in the distribution of class power and the way wealth was produced and used. They wanted less individualistic advancement at the expense of the many and collective betterment for the entire working populace.

The standard "trickle down" theory says that the accumulation of wealth at the top eventually brings more prosperity to the rest of us below; a rising tide lifts all boats. I would argue that in a class society the accumulation of

Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.

Our large size, capital base, robust funding profile, extensive distribution network, diversified portfolio, presence across the financial services sector, and leadership in technology position us very well to leverage the growth opportunities across the economy.

Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.

Strange as it may seem, wrote Richard Feynman, we understand the distribution of matter in the interior of the Sun far better than we understand the interior of the Earth.

Widespread commercial distribution of ice was so new that 300 tons of the precious commodity melted at one port while customs officials tried to figure out how to classify it.

Bayes's theorem and that looks like this: People who understand Bayes's theorem can use it to work out complex problems involving probability distributions—or inverse probabilities, as they are sometimes called.

For example, it's natural to think of America's electric grid as one single connected network, but in reality it's nothing of the sort. There isn't one power grid; there are many, and they're a patchwork mess that makes it essentially impossible to send electricity beyond the region where it's made. Arizona can sell spare solar power to its neighbors, but not to a state on the other side of the country.

The deal is this: if somebody isn't willing to receive his or her share, it must go to whoever will. The rain doesn't care who gets it and neither does money. At

Per anni l'aveva rispettato; forse, pensava, anche amato, di quell'amore senza fuoco che si distribuisce in parti uguali ai diversi membri della propria famiglia.»

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

Music has changed. You can just throw songs out on iTunes song by song; you don't have to do a whole album.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Between 2000 and 2016, half of Americans saw no gains to their real incomes; the proportion of national output going to the top 1 percent went from 9 percent of GDP in 1974 to 24 percent in 2008.5

Political scientist Ronald Inglehart, who has overseen the massive World Values Survey that seeks to measure value change around the world, has argued that economic modernization and middle-class status produce what he calls "post-material" values in which democracy, equality, and identity issues become much more prominent than older issues of economic distribution.

We must face the fact that the preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.

It is hard to imagine that a system with such high inequality could be politically stable.

We cannot distribute more wealth than is created. We cannot in the long run pay labor as a whole more than it produces.

heavy unemployment means that fewer goods are produced, that the nation is poorer, and that there is less for everybody.