“The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.” WorldEnoughWholeHomeAmericaCapitalismStructureWorkersWhole WorldLifts Author:James P. Cannon
“Litmus test: If you can't describe Ricardo's Law of Comparative Advantage and explain why people find it counterintuitive, you don't know enough about economics to direct any criticism or praise at "capitalism" because you don't know what other people are referring to when they use that word.” PeopleIfsKnowsEnoughUseLawCapitalismAdvantageEconomicsDirectCriticismTestsPraiseReferringComparative Advantage Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky
“We preach free enterprise capitalism. We believe in it, we give our lives in war for it, but the closest most of us come to profiting from it are a few miserable shares of stock in a company that doesn't pay large enough dividends to keep a small mouse in cheese. The truth is, most of us are job serfs. At a time when invested capital returns 20 to 30 percent, we have no capital. We only have our wages and salaries, and a debt so high that something like 20c on every dollar we earn is spent to pay off what we owe.” GivingBelieveWarEnoughWisdomJobsPoliticsPayCompanyEconomyOur LivesShareReturnTruth IsPercentCapitalismDollarsDebtMiserableLiberalismEnterpriseClosestCheeseMiceWagesSalaryDividendsFree EnterpriseSerfs Book:Left at the post Source: Left at the post
“If I were a supervillain, I would end capitalism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia... but I guess that's a little too obvious and not villain-y enough. Because that's actually being a superhero. I would break down poverty with my machete; I would end world hunger.” IfsWorldLittlesEndsEnoughPovertyBreakRacismCapitalismHungerObviousSexismVillainBreaking DownSuperheroHomophobiaWorld HungerSupervillainsMachetes Author:Kathleen Hanna
“For all its apparent tolerance, the USA maintains a peculiar balance between the forces of capitalism and democracy. To achieve this I feel sure the country is guided by some hidden force; an organization working in secrecy, powerful enough to dispose of the Kennedys and of anyone else who gets in its way.” WayFeelsCountryEnoughForcePowerfulDemocracyAchieveBalanceCapitalismOrganizationToleranceUsaPeculiarSecrecy Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“Capitalism lures us onward like the mechanical hare before the greyhounds, insisting that the economy is infinite and sharing therefore irrelevant. Just enough greyhounds catch a real hare now and then to keep the others running till they drop. In the past it was only the poor who lost this game; now it is the planet.” RealEnoughRunningPastGamesLostPoorEconomyPlanetsCapitalismInfiniteNow And ThenIrrelevantLureInsistingHaresGreyhounds Book:A Short History Of Progress Source: A Short History Of Progress
“Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.” EnoughGovernmentSocialInterestGroupsInfluenceSpecialPromiseBenefitsGunCapitalismGainsDemocraticSufficientEnterpriseVotersMore MoneySpecial InterestsCooperativesInterest GroupsSpecial Interest Groups Author:Gary North
“Through private investment capitalism kept raising the productivity of labor to new heights. Parents were able to earn enough so their offspring did not have to join the work force at an early age. This produced something unique in history: Childhood, a time when the young could experience the innocence of play and opportunity of schooling before entering the world of work.” WorldEnoughPlayAgeAbleYoungOpportunityForceParentChildhoodUniqueCapitalismLaborInvestmentProductivityInnocenceHeightEnteringSchoolingOffspring Author:Richard Ebeling
“Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse.” EnoughYoungCareersReturnCivilizationModelsCapitalismHorribleCharlie Author:Charlie Munger
“Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.” PeopleYearsDoeEnoughLastsGamesRealizingDealsPayExistenceSawsProgressEconomicMassStandardsHundredCapitalismDestroyedShellsInflationBillionaireStandards Of LivingPissed OffLattesEconomic Progress Author:Terence McKenna
“The story of Detroit's bankruptcy was simple enough: Allow capitalism to grow the city, campaign against income inequality, tax the job creators until they flee, increase government spending in order to boost employment, promise generous pension plans to keep people voting for failure. Rinse, wash and repeat.” PeopleEnoughStoriesGovernmentJobsOrderGrowsSimpleCitiesPlansPromiseTaxesCapitalismIncreaseCreatorSpendingCampaignsIncomeEmploymentInequalityGenerousRepeatsVotingDetroitBankruptcyBoostPensionGovernment SpendingIncome InequalityJob CreatorsPension Plans Author:Ben Shapiro
“I've lived long enough to see the triumph of zealots and absolutists, to watch money swallow politics, to witness the rise of the corporate state. See the party of working and poor people become a sycophant of crony capitalism. Watch the union of church and state become fashionable again. Witness the coupling of news and entertainment. See everyday people cast overboard as the pirates and predators of Wall Street seized the ship of state. I didn't drift; I moved left just by standing still.” PeopleLongStillsStatesEnoughLeftChurchPoorPartyWatchesStreetsWallNewsCapitalismStandingMovedUnionsEverydayCastsEntertainmentShipsWitnessTriumphCorporatePoor PeopleChurch And StateFashionablePiratePredatorOverboardStanding StillZealotCroniesCouplingSycophantsCrony Capitalism Author:Bill Moyers
“A person without an Apple watch is perfectly content with his present watch but when he sees his friends buying the watch, he will hanker for an Apple watch. The endless cycle of wanting, getting, and wanting again is part of the plot of Capitalism. It is the way Capitalism creates jobs. The only antidote is Buddhism that holds that people might be happier by renouncing desire rather than by striving to satisfy desire. But then how can the economy create enough jobs in a Buddhist society of "less is more."” PeopleWayPersonsEnoughMightJobsDesireWatchesEconomyBuddhismCapitalismStriveEndlessBuddhistApplesBuyingPlotCyclesAntidoteLess Is MoreApple Watch Author:Philip Kotler
“Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme.” IfsThinkingWayEnoughPurposeWealthLevelsMassCapitalismStuckManageThank GodEnginesImperfectSchemesPyramidsCredibleToolboxPyramid Schemes Author:David Simon
“People should absolutely have a point of view about the political process themselves individually, but we're also at a point in the evolution of capitalism where any one individual's impacts are over estimated because there is enough regulation and guard rails. They may be odious and grotesque in what they say, but the practical day-to-day impacts from a policy perspective tend to be limited because the system made it so. That's why you see a lot of political apathy because people have internalized the inability for anyone either really really good or really really bad to do anything.” PeopleEnoughPoliticalPolicyPerspectiveEvolutionCapitalismPoint Of ViewApathyRail Author:Chamath Palihapitiya
“We spend more time with our coworkers than we do with our loved ones, and yet we don't have that many novels on the subject. We have far more novels about families bickering at Thanksgiving and not enough about the day before Thanksgiving at the office. If we lived in, say, Romania, maybe a workplace job might not be as important to the cultural discussion. But we live in America, where work is crucially important and capitalism drives everything we do.” ImportantEnoughNovelOfficeCapitalismDiscussionLoved OnesWorkplaceBickeringCoworker Author:Teddy Wayne
“People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased.” PeopleCountryEnoughPainBeautifulForeverCapitalismFocusedRight Thing Author:Rick Moody
“In 2003, Helmut Schmidt said: Predatory capitalism exists, we have to civilize it and we can do that via Europe. He was right. We haven't tried hard enough.” EnoughCapitalism Author:Martin Schulz
“Capitalism is an organized system to guarantee that greed becomes the primary force of our economic system and allows the few at the top to get very wealthy and has the rest of us riding around thinking we can be that way, too - if we just work hard enough, sell enough Tupperware and Amway products, we can get a pink Cadillac.” IfsThinkingWayHardEnoughForceEconomicProductsHard WorkCapitalismSellsGreedPrimariesOrganizedGuaranteesWealthyRidingEconomic SystemsGuarantees ThatCadillacsTupperwareAmway Author:Michael Moore
“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.” PeopleTryingEnoughPhilosophyStuffBalanceCapitalismViolentDelicateStupid PeopleTrying Hard Book:Napalm & Silly Putty Source: Napalm & Silly Putty
“In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy peace, it may even one day make the discovery, to the horror of doctrinaire free-enterprisers and doctrinaire planners alike, that what is called capitalism and what is called socialism are both capable of working quite well.” IfsWorldWellsMayEnoughChoicesCoursesPoliticsPeaceEnjoyDecisionEconomyEconomicPolicyHorrorOne DayLuckyCapableDiscoveryCapitalismSocialismUsualPlannersEconomic PolicyEconomy And Economics Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a fellow who, by definition, can ill afford to believe in anything other than the doctrine of the bottom line. Deprive a capitalist of his God-given right to lie and cheat and steal, and the poor sap stands a better than even chance of becoming one of the abominable wards of the state from whose grimy fingers the Reagan Administration hopes to snatch the ark of democracy.” BelieveWarStatesEnoughLyingGivenLinesChancePoorDemocracyRichGeniusBecomingMoralityCapitalismFellowsFingersBottomIllDefinitionsStealingDoctrineAdministrationCapitalistCheatBottom LineChoirSapArkBecoming One Author:Lewis H. Lapham
“The issue is Socialism versus Capitalism. I am for Socialism because I am for humanity. We have been cursed with the reign of gold long enough. Money constitutes no proper basis of civilization. The time has come to regenerate society - we are on the eve of universal change.” LongHas BeensEnoughHumanityIssuesCivilizationCapitalismGoldUniversalBasesSocialismReignVersusCursed Author:Eugene V. Debs
“I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.” ThinkingNeedsYearsEnoughLastsCapitalismEightRegulation Author:Howard Dean
“Liberal democracy - as you know, in the old days, we were saying we want socialism with a human face. Today's left effectively offers global capitalism with a human face, more tolerance, more rights and so on. So the question is, is this enough or not? Here I remain a Marxist: I think not.” ThinkingKnowsWantHumansEnoughTodayFacesLeftDemocracyRightsOffersCapitalismToleranceSocialismOld DaysMarxistHuman FacesLiberal Democracy Author:Slavoj Žižek
“We, the Social Democrats, are convinced that capitalism needs to be tamed a second time. The first time we achieved that in Germany for many decades with the social market economy. That is no longer enough. Now we need to do it in Europe and even globally.” NeedsFirstsEnoughSocialEconomyCapitalismFirst TimeEuropeDemocratConvincedDecadesGermanyMarket EconomyTamed Author:Sigmar Gabriel