Quotes About Distribution

Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

The "Ways & Means Committee" is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

It is difficult to administer properly what belongs to all in common.

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Hunger is a people-made phenomenon, so the central issue is power: the power of those who make the decisions about what is grown and who, or what, it's grown for.

The "trickle-down" theory: the principle that the poor, who must subsist on table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed. The Economist, December 4, 2003

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Mesopotamian cities identified closely with their deities, and their temples functioned as the main social and economic engines. The king served as the intermediary between the city and its deity, and his palace operated side by side with the temple. Both palace and temple commanded the key function in any society: the production and distribution of food.

Also, if one of the indexes is down for the day on volume larger than the prior day's volume, it should decline more than 0.2% for this to be counted as a distribution day. After

Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual where they dress in Santa suits, take toys from department stores and distribute them to children on the street, partly just so everyone can relish the images of the cops beating down Santa and snatching the toys back from crying children.

If we let everyone decide for themselves how they were best fit to benefit humanity, with no restrictions at all, how could they possibly end up with a distribution of labor more inefficient than the one we already have?

If 1 percent of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call "the free market" reflects what they think is useful or important.

The more the economy becomes a matter of the mere distribution of loot, the more inefficiency and unnecessary chains of command actually make sense, since these are the forms of organization best suited to soaking up as much of that loot as possible.

Where the riches are engrossed by a few, these must contribute very largely to the supplying of the public necessities.

We see one of the major principles of our welfare system today at work as Joseph distributes food supplies in Egypt. Rather than merely giving the grain out, which promotes waste, he still had the people pay for it, which helps eliminate waste and lack of appreciation

God gives the world enough of what it needs. All He asks is that we distribute what He gives.

God sends his angels to protect us and his Word as a star to guide us. Then he surrounds us with his grace. We become his depot, the distribution point of God's gifts.

The market economy is very good at wealth creation but not perfect at all about wealth distribution.