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“In the development of both capitalism and communism, as we visualize them in the next fifty or a hundred years, the processes that encourage human alienation will continue.”

Years Humans Next Process Development Hundred Capitalism Communism Fifty Alienation Capitalism And Communism

Book:The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture

Source: The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture

“Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed.”

Men Years Two Ends Social Changed Hundred Capitalism Years Ago Fixed Ancestor Never Change Advent Social Status

Book:Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

Source: Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow

“Capitalism has improved the standard of living of the wage earners to an unprecedented extent. The average American family enjoys today amenities of which, only a hundred years ago, not even the richest nabobs dreamed.”

Years Today Enjoy Standards Hundred Capitalism Years Ago Average Unprecedented Standards Of Living American Family Amenities Enjoy Today

Book:Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

Source: Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses

“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.”

“I think the word is counter-productive. Capitalism is counter-productive to art, just as the Catholic Church was counter-productive to art four hundred years ago.”

Thinking Years Art Church Four Hundred Capitalism Years Ago Catholic Productive Catholic Church

Author:Mick Farren

“The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years.”

Years Has Beens Hundred Capitalism Instability

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“The inborn instability of capitalism has been part of the history of the system for several hundred years, including recurrent speculative episodes. There should be no doubt in anyone's mind that we're now having another one of those speculative episodes.”

Should Years Mind Has Beens Doubt Hundred Capitalism Including No Doubt Episodes Instability

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping.”

Knows Years Company Technology Hundred Capitalism Ownership Arrangements Joints Entry Crossroads Liability Cooperatives Bookkeeping

Author:Howard Rheingold

“To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no invention of capitalism. Unequal exchange is an ancient practice. What was remarkable about capitalism as a historical system was the way in which this unequal exchange could be hidden; indeed, hidden so well that it is only after five hundred years of the operation of this mechanism that even the avowed opponents of the system have begun to unveil it systematically.”

Way Years Wells Use Order Force Party Practice Five Hundred Capitalism Historical Ancient Invention Operations Opponents Remarkable Mechanism Transactions Use Of Force

Author:Immanuel Wallerstein

“The younger generation of today has grown up in a world in which in school and press the spirit of commercial enterprise has been represented as disreputable and the making of profit as immoral, where to employ a hundred people is represented as exploitation but to command the same number as honorable.”