“Poor people always pay back their loans. [...] It is us, the designers of institutions and rules, who keep creating trouble for them.” PeoplePoorPayTroubleCreatingInstitutionsCreatorPoor PeopleLoan Author:Muhammad Yunus
“...there are two (inter alia) two ways of ruining a society - namely, letting the market "be the sole director of the fate of human beings," and allowing technology to permeate every aspect of our lives. In the United States, both of these developments have converged, creating a huge chasm between rich and poor and pushing us over the edge into a kind of antisociety... While these developments have been widely hailed as the dawn of a golden age, the likelihood is that they actually amount to a death knell, the beginning of the end of the American empire.” WayHumansKindHas BeensTwoEndsStatesAgeHuman BeingsPoorUnitedTechnologyUnited StatesRichOur LivesFateHugeDevelopmentAmountDirectorsCreatingAspectEdgesGoldenDawnEmpiresPushingAllowingSoleTwo WaysRich And PoorLikelihoodGolden AgeChasmsOver The EdgeAmerican Empire Author:Morris Berman
“We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success.” WorldHas BeensKidsPoorRichHugeColdCreatingResearchChainsFundingAlliancesDeliveryVaccinesMeningitis Author:Bill Gates
“The tax collector must love poor people, he's creating so many of them.” PeoplePoorPovertyTaxesCreatingPoor PeopleTaxationCollectorsFederal Taxes Author:Bill Vaughan