“A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.” FactsWealthCuttingMembersFunctionIncreaseIncomeUselessAcquireFundEfficiencyDistribution Book:Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest Source: Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest
“Men swagger around calling themselves "cattlemen" but abuse their grass like a rapist. And abuse their cattle with concrete fecal feedlots without any regards to rumen function. Vegetable growers plow thousands of acres, planting monocrops of annuals in a never-ending tillage routine that totally annihilates carbon wealth. Why? Why are we so enamored of things that destroy carbon and disrespect the animals under our care? Grass. Lowly grass. It just gets no respect. And yet it is the lifeblood of the planet.” MenCareWealthAnimalPlanetsCallingAbuseFunctionRegardPlantGrassRoutineVegetablesConcreteCarbonDisrespectCattleNever EndingAnnualsAcresSwaggerNo RespectEnamored Author:Joel Salatin
“Under the old social philosophy which had governed the Middle Ages, temporal, and therefore all economic, activities were referred to an eternal standard. The production of wealth, it distribution and exchange were regulated with a view to securing the Christian life of Christian men. In two points especially was this felt: First in securing the independence of the family, which can only be done by the wide distribution of property, in others words the prevention of the growth of a proletariat; secondly, in the close connection between wealth and public function.” MenFirstsTwoDonePhilosophyAgeChristianPoliticsSocialFeltGrowthWealthViewsEconomyEconomicMiddleActivityEternalStandardsConnectionsFunctionIndependencePropertyProductionsWideChristian LifeLiberalismDistributionMiddle AgesPreventionProletariat Author:Hilaire Belloc
“American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.” JobsPoliticsRealizingWealthNumbersEconomyLaborFunctionIncreaseRateLiberalism Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.” WorldIdeasProblemWisdomPoliticsWealthEconomyProduceConceptsLaborFunctionPropertySolveEmploymentLiberalismNonsenseOwnershipBlindnessAmplifyProperty Ownership Author:Louis O. Kelso
“While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.” MayProblemStuffWealthEffortEffectsSecurityFunctionGenerosityGenerousAppetiteAntidote Author:Andy Stanley
“the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.” GivingWealthFunction Author:Anita Roddick
“The Landlord is a gentleman who does not earn his wealth. He has a host of agents and clerks that receive for him. He does not even take the trouble to spend his wealth. He has a host of people around him to do the actual spending. He never sees it until he comes to enjoy it. His sole function, his chief pride, is the stately consumption of wealth produced by others.” PeopleDoeEnjoyWealthTroublePrideFunctionSpendingAgentsChiefsGentlemanHostSoleConsumptionClerksLandlord Author:David Lloyd
“The attack on Social Security is similarly motivated. Social Security is based on the conception is that we should have sympathy for others, not function merely as isolated "rational wealth maximizers."” ShouldSocialWealthSecurityShould HaveFunctionRationalConceptionMotivatedIsolatedSocial Security Author:Noam Chomsky
“A currency serves three functions: providing a means of payment, a unit of account and a store of value. Gold may be a store of value for wealth, but it is not a means of payment. You cannot pay for your groceries with it. Nor is it a unit of account. Prices of goods and services, and of financial assets, are not denominated in gold terms.” MayMeanValuesThreeTermWealthPayGoldAccountsFunctionFinancialStoresGoodsAssetsProvidingCurrencyUnitsPaymentGroceriesGoods And Services Author:Nouriel Roubini
“I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast dimensions of wealth and greed and ambition and corruption. And yet I don't feel a part of that world, and I wouldn't know how to join if I tried.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsWarWealthKnow HowAmbitionFunctionRegardGreedCorruptionBudgetsDimensionsBombing Author:Douglas Coupland
“Forests, beyond offering us their plainly utilitarian wealth, have to perform vast physiological functions in the great economy of nature, by contributing predominantly in the empire of vegetation to the liberation of oxygen.” WealthEconomyEnvironmentFunctionForestsLiberationEmpiresOfferingOxygenContributingPhysiologicalVegetationUtilitarian Author:Ferdinand von Mueller