“When you take out individual initiative, individual responsibility, and the hope that every individual is born with, to better their lives, to climb the economic ladder, to pursue happiness, that is, in fact, a neoslavery.” FactsIndividualBornResponsibilityEconomicPursueClimbsInitiativeLaddersIndividual ResponsibilityNiger Author:Niger Innis
“The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.” PeopleReasonPoorPayEconomicBottomTrappedLadders Author:Elizabeth Warren
“If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its use of resources - partly by shifting to high-quality, low-input durable goods and partly by seeking fulfillment through leisure, human relationships, and other nonmaterial avenues. We in the consumer society will have to live a technologically sophisticated version of the life-style currently practiced lower on the economic ladder.” IfsHumansUseQualityGenerationsEconomicStylePlanetsLowsResourcesEnvironmentalSeekingVersionsConsumersFulfillmentGoodsLeisureSustainabilitySophisticatedLaddersShiftingFuture GenerationAvenuesHuman RelationsEcosystemsHuman RelationshipsInputHigh QualityLife Style Author:Alan Thein Durning
“Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.” FeelsHas BeensStillsHardLeftDealsBehindsEconomicGuiltClimbingLaddersLeft Behind Author:Elena Ferrante
“When you help the poorest in the world, you start to move them up an economic and social ladder, and they're not going to be moving toward violence or terrorism of the kind that we worry about.” WorldKindHelpingMovingSocialWorryViolenceEconomicTerrorismLaddersPoorestHelp The Poor Author:Colin Powell