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“We're subject to the same forces of capitalism that have built the entire American economy. Strong returns induce more capital flow, which creates more competitors, and you have to evolve and get better, or you die.”

Dies Strong Force Economy Subjects Return Capitalism Built Flow Evolve Get Better Competitors American Economy

Author:Kenneth C. Griffin

“There are some things in the world we can't change- gravity, entropy, the speed of light, and our biological nature that requires clean air, clean water, clean soil, clean energy and biodiversity for our health and well-being. Protecting the biosphere should be our highest priority or else we sicken and die. Other things, like capitalism, free enterprise, the economy, currency, the market, are not forces of nature, we invented them. They are not immutable and we can change them. It makes no sense to elevate economics above the biosphere.”

“It is possible to see slavery and serfdom merely as extreme early forms of autocratic management, in which employees had no voice whatsoever in the work process and were viewed not as human beings but as alienated forms of individual wealth. Slavery, in this sense, did not die; it continues in modern dress in contemporary organizations wherever managers exercise autocratic power, unequal status, or arbitrary privileges, no matter how scientific the terminology or postmodern the image”

“Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.”

Whole Dies Interest Capitalism Defined Banking Loan Banking System Unproductive Usury

Author:John Adams

“If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.”

Ifs World Dies Capitalism Logic

Author:Bill Ayers

“Capitalism is chronically unstable.Boom and bust has always marked capitalism in the United States. There were panics in 1785, 1791, 1819, 1857, 1869, 1873, 1907, 1929 and 1987.In economies and politics, as in war, an astonishing number of people die, like the man on the railway crossing, defending their right of way. This is a poorly developed instinct in Switzerland. No country so firmly avows the principles of private enterprise but in few have the practical concessions to socialism been more numerous and varied.”

“How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.”

Source: The Joy of the Gospel

“If you can't afford the good food or if you can't afford health care or if you don't have a job or if your car is dangerous because you can't get it fixed and you DIE, you just lost the game-bzzzzz-thanks for playing extreme capitalism.”

Ifs Care Jobs Dies Games Lost Dangerous Car Capitalism Extremes Thanks Health Care Fixed Good Food

Book:Attempting Normal

Source: Attempting Normal

“The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.”

Dies Natural Generations Capitalism Our Generation Natural Death

Book:The Arcades Project

Source: The Arcades Project

“Capitalism’s grow-or-die imperative stands radically at odds with ecology’s imperative of interdependence and limit. The two imperatives can no longer coexist with each other; nor can any society founded on the myth that they can be reconciled hope to survive. Either we will establish an ecological society or society will go under for everyone, irrespective of his or her status.”

Two Dies Grows Limits Capitalism Myth Odds Ecology Imperatives Ecological Interdependence Coexist

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin