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“Anarcho-capitalism, in my opinion, is a doctrinal system which, if ever implemented, would lead to forms of tyranny and oppression that have few counterparts in human history. There isn't the slightest possibility that its (in my view, horrendous) ideas would be implemented, because they would quickly destroy any society that made this colossal error. The idea of 'free contract' between the potentate and his starving subject is a sick joke, perhaps worth some moments in an academic seminar exploring the consequences of (in my view, absurd) ideas, but nowhere else.”

“Financial crises are an unfortunate but necessary consequence of modern capitalism.”

Modern Capitalism Consequence Crisis Financial Unfortunate Financial Crisis

Author:Andrew Lo

“Capitalism is in crisis both morally, due to widening disparities of income and wealth and disclosures of abusive practices, and ecologically, due to its refusal to make business adjustments in accounting procedures that pass the consequences of emissions to the public and the future.”

Wealth Practice Capitalism Consequence Crisis Dues Income Procedures Refusal Adjustment Emissions Accounting Abusive Disparity Disclosure

Author:Richard A. Falk

“One of our great strength, world capitalism, is the most successful economic system possible, but has also become one of shorter and shorter cycles of evaluation. CEOs, companies, stocks, profits and debits change at an ever more accelerated pace in response to the demands of stockholders and the market. We have already experienced some consequences of the shortening cycle of decision making in business, but those are minor in relation to the grand systemic collapse that always eventually results from such accelerating and shortening periods for leadership goals.”

World Goal Decision Successful Economic Capitalism Consequence Relation Response Decision Making Ceo

Author:Arthur Demarest

“One of the greatest gains of capitalism is that even the proletarian slave feels like a master. He believes he has the power to change his life. We are propelled by the ideology of the self-made man: we work more, we consume more and in the end we consume ourselves. The consequences are burnout, bulimia and other lifestyle diseases.”

Men Believe Capitalism Consequence Slave Lifestyle Ideology Bulimia

Author:Renata Salecl

“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”

Source: The Wretched of the Earth

“The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.”

Would Be Imagine Events Easier Capitalism Consequence Regimes Collapse Marketplace Unimaginable Continuation Traumatic Events

Book:Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve

Source: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve

“Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape.”

People Mean Today Law Powerful Possibility Survival Mass Capitalism Consequence Competition Powerless Excluded Survival Of The Fittest Marginalized Economic Justice Economy Today

Book:The Joy of the Gospel

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“It is this third consequence that has been elaborated in greatest detail and has formed one of the most significant pillars of historical capitalism, institutional racism.”

Has Beens Racism Capitalism Consequence Thirds Historical Details Significant Pillars Institutional Racism

Book:Capistalist Civilisation

Source: Capistalist Civilisation

“The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, which scientific risks have not been pursued. It raises the question of who has decided what scientific risks were worth taking, and what have been the consequences in terms of the power structures of the world.”

World Years Has Beens Term Issues Risk Balance Capitalism Consequence Decided Raises Structure Sheets Pursued Balance Sheets

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”

Mean Action Political Choices Opportunity Politics Individual Freedom Responsibility Liberty Bears Capitalism Consequence Burden Inseparable Individual Liberty

Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“The moral justification of capitalism does not lie in the altruist claim that it represents the best way to achieve 'the common good.' It is true that capitalism does -- if that catch-phrase has any meaning -- but this is merely a secondary consequence. The moral justification for capitalism lies in the fact that it is the only system consonant with man's rational nature, that it protects man's survival qua man, and that its ruling principle is: justice”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.”

Ifs Way Government America Used Individual Accepting Practice Risk Possibility Theory Capitalism Consequence Rewards Reap

Author:Larry Elder

“Shallow uniformity is not an accident but a consequence of what Marxists optimistically call late capitalism.”

Late Capitalism Consequence Accidents Shallow Marxist Uniformity

Book:Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous

Source: Cruel Britannia: Reports on the Sinister and the Preposterous