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“Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence, and anyone who can read without moving his lips should know it by now.”

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Brooks Stevens

Brooks Stevens was an influential industrial designer known for his innovative designs in the fields of automotive, furniture, and packaging. He was born on June 7, 1911, and passed away on January 4, 1995. more

“The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight, male and female - had sex with adults from the ages of nine to 13. None feel they were abused. All say it was their conscious choice and gave them great joy.”

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Author:Peter Tatchell

“Women and gay people are the litmus test of whether a society is democratic and respecting human rights. We are the canaries in the mine.”

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Author:Peter Tatchell

“Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills.”

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Book:Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“When the rate of return on capital exceeds the rate of growth of output and income, as it did in the nineteenth century and seems quite likely to do again in the twenty-first, capitalism automatically generates arbitrary and unsustainable inequalities that radically undermine the meritocratic values on which democratic societies are based.”

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“What was the good of industrial development, what was the good of all the technological innovations, toil, and population movements if, after half a century of industrial growth, the condition of the masses was still just as miserable as before, and all lawmakers could do was prohibit factory labor by children under the age of eight?”

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Democracy will never be supplanted by a republic of experts—and that is a very good thing.”

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Book:Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.”

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Author:Thomas Piketty

“There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.”

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Book:Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

“Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.”

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Book:Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Source: Capital in the Twenty-First Century

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