“Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion. The industrial society ... recognises nothing except the power to acquire ... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism.” KindCultureSocialPleasureCommonEmotionCapitalismSatisfactionEnvyAcquireGlamourRecognise Author:John Berger
“I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else.” PeopleGivingKindDoeHelpingUseFormLeftPowerfulBusinessCompanyEconomyCreativeIssuesCapitalismFocusedCorporationsContributionEmployeeCashOfferingVolunteerImprovingPercentagesInnovatorsLeft OutGlobal EconomyTime Off Author:Bill Gates
“We need to graduate from the ridiculous notion that greed is some kind of elixir for capitalism - it's the downfall of capitalism. Self-interest, maybe, but self-interest run amok does not serve anyone. The core value of conscious capitalism is enlightened self-interest. As Jim Cramer on CNBC says, "Bulls make money, bears make money, pigs get slaughtered."” NeedsKindDoeSelfRunningValuesInterestBusinessBearsConsciousCapitalismNotionGreedRidiculousCoreMaking MoneyEnlightenedGraduatesPigsBullsSelf InterestDownfallCore ValuesElixir Author:Patricia Aburdene
“We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of "conscious capitalism," which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it "stakeholder capitalism."” KindFormSocialCommunityBusinessCompanyPracticeEconomicHigherIntegrityCostStandardsConsciousCapitalismResponsibleEnvironmentalConsumersUnconsciousEmployeeShareholdersHigher StandardsSuppliersStakeholder Author:Patricia Aburdene
“The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch.” WantKindShowsRealityValuesWealthPoorWatchesMediaTelevisionFameMessagesCapitalismProgramSickCorporateCorporationsCelebrationBetrayCompetitorsFleetingManipulateTelevision ShowsBelittleReality Television Author:Chris Hedges
“I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime.” IfsBelieveKindStillsRealityHappensSufferingI BelieveLuckyCapitalismSatisfactionHarshSublimeI Still BelieveHumming Author:George Saunders
“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revolution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.” WorldKindDoeRunningFormSituationStepsCenturyRevolutionPureCapitalismHistoricalVariousWideRussiaCommunismZoneCapitalistDominationParallelsTwentieth CenturyNineteenth CenturyDegeneration Author:Amadeo Bordiga
“A businessman is someone who buys at ten and is happy to get out at twelve. The other kind of man buys at ten, sees it rise to eighteen and does nothing. He is waiting for it to rise to twenty. When it drops to two he waits for it to get back to ten.” MenKindDoeTwoWaitingTenCapitalismTwentiesGet BackTwelveBusinessmanEighteen Book:A Bend in the River Source: A Bend in the River