“Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.” ThinkingHardWould BeForceSocialInterestWealthRolesGoneEconomicFashionCapitalismOwnersShedAccordApprovedAnonymityAdverseSocial SystemsConnotationTerminology Author:John Kenneth Galbraith
“Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.” WantArtHardArtistLanguageProduceHard WorkConflictCapitalismSellingConsumersFirmCapitalistAccusedSelling OutSold Out Author:Alex Tabarrok
“Work of all kinds is got from poor women, at prices that will not keep soul and body together, and then the articles thus made aresold for prices that give monstrous prices to the capitalist, who thus grows rich on the hard labor of our sex.” GivingKindMadeSoulHardBodyTogetherSexGrowsPoorRichCapitalismLaborAll KindsArticlesCapitalistMonstrousSoul And Body Book:The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy Source: The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy
“It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.” WayHardStatesNationsCapitalismStructureInternationalChainsSimplificationSupply Chain Author:James C. Scott
“I'm not critical of the people who do psychotherapy. The therapists in the trenches have to face an awful lot of the social, political, and economic failures of capitalism. They have to take care of all the rejects and failures. They are sincere and work hard with very little credit, and the HMOs and the pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies are trying to wipe them out. So certainly I am not attacking them. I am attacking the theories of psychotherapy.” PeopleTryingLittlesHardCareFacesPoliticalSocialCompanyEconomicHard WorkTheoryCapitalismCreditCriticalTake CareAwfulRejectsSincereAttackingWipeTherapistsPsychotherapyTrenchesInsurance CompaniesPharmaceuticalPharmaceutical Companies Author:James Hillman
“I wrote on my desk wall when I was writing the film...'Art is socialism, but life is capitalism.' That's the hard thing in all of it if you expect to make a living.” IfsWritingArtHardFilmLife IsWallArt IsCapitalismSocialismDesksHard Things Author:Mike Birbiglia
“This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.” LongHardHappensFightingEconomyRichGenerationsPoliticianCapitalismCorporationsNew Generation Author:Kshama Sawant
“I worked very hard to try and figure out what I thought and I believed that we were going to succeed and that revolutions would happen globally and we would be a part of that and we would have then not capitalism. We would have values based on human lives, not profit. We would actually transform the kinds of ways people built love and built community. It was a very shocking thing to me, out of the end of the 70s and the beginning of the 80s, to realize that that dream - while I still believed in it - was not going to happen in the way that I had hoped.” PeopleWayTryingHumansKindStillsEndsHardDreamHappensWould BeValuesRealizingCommunityFiguresRevolutionSucceedCapitalismBuiltProfitHuman LifeShocking80sI Still BelieveShocking Things Author:Amber Hollibaugh
“The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.” ChildrenRealHardPlayFacesEnemyGrowingEconomicHard WorkComfortableCapitalismStrongerDemocraticConvictionInequalityAssaultEconomic Inequality Author:Jon Meacham
“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
“Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with.” Has BeensHardCapitalismGreedCriminalsBehaviourEpidemicsRepercussionsDeregulation Author:Brad Pitt
“We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad.” BelieveHardBlackJusticeWhitePoorSacrificeHard WorkGrewDiversityEthicsCapitalismBuiltSocial JusticeSlaveMythThriveBlack And WhiteExploitationProtestantsDeluded Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The problem with capitalism is that it best rewards the worst part of us: the ruthless, competitive, conniving, opportunistic, acquisitive drives, giving little reward and often much punishment-or at least much handicap-to honesty, compassion, fair play, many forms of hard work, love of justice, and a concern for those in need.” NeedsGivingLittlesHardPlayProblemFormJusticeCompassionWorstHonestyHard WorkCapitalismConcernFairsRewardsPunishmentGlobalizationRuthlessHandicapsThose In NeedFair PlayWork LoveConniving Author:Michael Parenti
“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose. There's no evidence that more people with more skills would produce more jobs. There's a great deal of evidence that they produce more competition for the jobs that exist, and in turn, drive down the cost of labour. Nothing pleases a corporation more than having five people compete for the same job. Competitiveness means good times for machines, not workers, because our tax systems privilege machines over workers.A lost job can put a smile on any shareholder's face.” PeopleMenMeanHardJobsFacesTurnsAsksLostDealsRichFiveProduceHard WorkPleaseCostSkillsTaxesEvidenceCapitalismMachinesCompetitionWorkersPrivilegeCorporationsGood TimesLabourShareholdersCompetitivenessTax System Author:Eric Reguly
“The very essence of capitalism is under threat as business is now seen as a personal wealth accumulator. We have to bring this world back to sanity and put the greater good ahead of self-interest. We need to fight very hard to create an environment out there that is more long term focussed and move away from short termism.” WorldNeedsLongSelfHardMovingFightingTermInterestWealthEnvironmentGreaterThis WorldCapitalismEssenceThreatLong TermSanityShort TermSelf InterestGreater GoodPersonal Wealth Author:Paul Polman
“No one is safe from Mattera’s hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism.” HardSafeCapitalismBlowJournalismHittingCroniesInvestigative JournalismCrony Capitalism Author:Monica Crowley