“From computers to information technology to airplanes, it has been America's unique blend of republican government and free-market capitalism that has allowed us to surpass all other nations in history.” Has BeensGovernmentAmericaNationsTechnologyInformationRepublicanComputerUniqueCapitalismAirplaneFree MarketInformation TechnologyRepublican GovernmentFree Market Capitalism Author:George Nethercutt
“Karl Marx did not call for an opposition to the forces of history. On the contrary he accepted all of them, the drive of technology, the revolutionizing effects of democratic striving, even the vagaries of capitalism, as being indeed the carriers of a brighter future.” ForceTechnologyEffectsCapitalismDemocraticStriveContraryAcceptedOppositionBrighterCarrierBrighter Future Author:Robert Heilbroner
“Technology and Ideology are shaking the foundations of 21st century capitalism. Technology is making skills and knowledge the only sources of sustainable strategic advantage.” TechnologyCenturySourceSkillsCapitalismAdvantageFoundationIdeology21st CenturyShakingStrategicSkills And Knowledge Author:Lester Thurow
“Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power.” StillsPoliticalTechnologyPowerDemocracyProgressEconomicCapitalismExpectedNovelistsConcentrationFlourishingEconomic PowerCentralization Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948 Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948
“For the West, the enemy was not "socialism" but capitalism. How to tame and subdue the polar bear, how to take over the talent, the science, the technology, how to buy out the human capital, how to acquire the intellectual property rights?” HumansEnemyTechnologyRightsTalentBearsIntellectualCapitalismPropertyWestSocialismAcquireProperty RightsIntellectual PropertyPolar Bears Author:Michel Chossudovsky
“We who work in technology have nurtured an especially rare gift: the opportunity to effect change at an unprecedented scale and rate. Technology, community, and capitalism combine to make Silicon Valley the potential epicenter of vast positive change.” OpportunityCommunityTechnologyEffectsCapitalismRateScalesValleysUnprecedentedSiliconPositive ChangeSilicon Valley Author:Justin Rosenstein
“Technology and capitalism are very much linked. I think that capitalism probably works best in a technologically progressing society.” ThinkingTechnologyProgressCapitalismLinked Author:Peter Thiel
“It is sort of a bit of a caricature of capitalism, that it's always this zero-sum game where you have winners and losers. Silicon Valley, the technology industry at its best, creates a situation where everybody can be a winner.” GamesBitsSituationTechnologyIndustryCapitalismWinnerZeroLoserValleysCaricaturesSiliconSilicon ValleyWinner And LoserZero Sum Game Author:Peter Thiel
“The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book selling, the future is happening to book selling.” PeopleBookRealityCommunityLeadershipTechnologyGenerationsMediaIndustryEvolutionInternetHappeningsCapitalismStrategyPropertyIndividualitySocial MediaComplainingSellingIdeologyConsumerismFree MarketAmazon Author:Jeff Bezos
“The Congressional Budget Office is a reactionary socialist institution which does not believe in economic growth, does not believe in innovation, and does not believe in data that it has not internally generated.” BelieveDoeRealityPoliticalPoliticsGrowthLeadershipMoneyPartyTechnologyEconomicPolicyOfficeCapitalismInnovationInstitutionsIndividualityIdeologyDataBudgetsFree SpeechSocialistPolitical PartiesFree MarketEconomic GrowthReactionariesPartisanship Author:Newt Gingrich
“It is a law of nature that everything run by the government will get more expensive and worse over time. Everything run by the private sector will get better and cheaper over time. The fact that [Obamacare] starts this badly does not bode well....We want healthcare run on the same system that gave us cell phones, flat screens, Jerry Garcia chia pets. Everything you submit to the free market...keeps getting better and better.” WantWellsDoeFactsRealityGovernmentRunningLawPoliticalPoliticsMoneyPartyHistoryTechnologyDemocracyHuman NatureHealthCapitalismPhonesScreensIdeologyCellsGet BetterExpensivePetFlatsHealthcareSubmitConsumerismPolitical PartiesFree MarketLaws Of NatureCell PhoneObamacareCheaperPrivate SectorJerry Author:Ann Coulter
“Governments, existing primarily to protect and enhance capitalism, maintain their power through the use of technologies that control the populace - by bread or circuses, by war or schooling, by armies and police, all of which are enabled and empowered by technology. That is what we might call the stick part of capitalism, while the riches-for-the-few is the carrot.” WarUseGovernmentMightTechnologyProtectCapitalismArmyPoliceSticksRichesBreadEmpoweredCircusSchoolingCarrotsUse Of Technology Author:Kirkpatrick Sale
“I'm passionate about restoring the efficacy of American democracy, making capitalism sustainable, prioritizing advances in technology, and seizing the opportunities to use that kind of innovation to help usher in a new economy that doesn't rely on carbon-spewing fossil fuels.” KindHelpingUseOpportunityTechnologyEconomyDemocracyCapitalismInnovationPassionateRelyFuelCarbonFossilsFossil FuelRestoringPrioritizeEfficacyAmerican DemocracySeizing Author:Al Gore
“Nobody has to tell me about the glories of the capitalist system. But what concerns me is that there no longer seems to be a commitment to make the opportunities afforded by technology and capitalism universally accessible.” SeemsOpportunityTechnologyGloryCommitmentCapitalismConcernCapitalist Author:Marianne Williamson
“Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doomed to perish within a few generations from the long term effects of the technology which seemed to Marx its greatest gift to humanity.” LongSeemsHumanityTermTechnologyGenerationsEffectsCapitalismLong TermDoomedGreatest GiftsSwampsQuicksandBogsFlailing Author:Allen W. Wood
“Today, we live in a world of incredible wealth and technology, alongside the most horrendous conditions of poverty, war and environmental crisis. This is result of capitalism, a system based on prioritizing profits not human need where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of a capitalist elite.” WorldNeedsHumansWarHandsTodayWealthResultsPovertyTechnologyConditionsCapitalismCrisisEnvironmentalIncrediblesProfitCapitalistElitesHuman NeedsPrioritizeEnvironmental Crisis Author:Kshama Sawant
“I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.” MeanMadeTechnologyDevelopmentEasierCapitalismConvincedAnarchismDevelopment Of Technology Author:Murray Bookchin
“We have to accept that capitalism is coming to an end. We can't provide paid employment for people, all the industries with technology are counter-intuitive to profit, and we have to have a transition to the conceptualist society. The only way to do it fairly is as a social democracy, a radical social democracy, which isn't compromised by neo-liberalism and isn't compromised by the rich, and isn't compromised by hegemonic, authoritarian interests: to have that balance between the government, the private sector, and then the individual citizens again.” PeopleWayEndsGovernmentIndividualSocialInterestAcceptingTechnologyDemocracyRichIndustryBalanceCitizensCapitalismPaidProfitEmploymentRadicalLiberalismTransitionIntuitivePrivate SectorComing To An EndSocial Democracy Author:Irvine Welsh
“Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.” PeopleWayUnderstandingSimpleTechnologyCarDrugCapitalismRewardsCreatorValuableFirmMakersImaginativeGood FoodProvidersValuable Things Author:Geoff Mulgan
“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.” KnowsYearsCompanyTechnologyHundredCapitalismOwnershipArrangementsJointsEntryCrossroadsLiabilityCooperativesBookkeeping Author:Howard Rheingold
“The Internet will help achieve "friction free capitalism" by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.” HelpingSuccessInspiringBusinessTechnologyAchieveInformationInternetCapitalismDirectContactProvidingSellersComputingBuyersFrictionInternet Business Author:Bill Gates
“Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century.” PoliticalCertainValuesPracticeTechnologyCenturyRevolutionFitLimitsCapitalismOvercomingDemocraticComplexesExtensionsTwentieth CenturyPredatoryAdvanced Technology Book:The Chomsky Reader Source: The Chomsky Reader
“Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.” Has BeensIdeasForceBehindsTechnologyProgressTeamProductsCapitalismInnovationMethodNew IdeasNew TechnologyNew Products Author:Manmohan Singh
“The tremendous and still accelerating development of science and technology has not been accompanied by an equal development in social, economic and political patterns …it is safe to predict that… such social inventions as modern-type capitalism, facism and communism will be regarded as primitive experiments directed towards the adjustment of modern society to modern methods” StillsPoliticalSocialTechnologyEconomicModernTypeDevelopmentSafeEqualCapitalismMethodPatternsExperimentsInventionCommunismPrimitiveAdjustmentScience And TechnologyModern Society Author:Ralph Linton
“In our time, the great task for libertarians is to find an escape from politics in all its forms—from the totalitarian and fundamentalist catastrophes to the unthinking demos that guides so-called ‘social democracy.’ . . . We are in a deadly race between politics and technology. . . . The fate of our world may depend on the effort of a single person who builds or propagates the machinery of freedom that makes the world safe for capitalism.” WorldMayPersonsFormSocialEffortRaceTechnologyDemocracyFateDependsSafeCapitalismTasksLibertarianGuidesOur TimeOur WorldCatastropheMachineryFundamentalistSingle PersonDemosSocial Democracy Author:Peter Thiel
“We do not lack the technology to solve our crises. We lack the courage to value life more than profit.” LifeTruthValuesTechnologyCourageCapitalismCrisisProfitPrioritiesClimate Action Author:Lawrence Nault