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“A diet that relies heavily on meat production results in higher emissions than a typical vegetarian diet. Different individuals will make different choices. However, the debate about climate change should not be dumbed down to a single slogan, such as 'give up meat to save the planet.”

“We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things.”

Men Want Important Seems Remember Individual Mass Productions Mass Production

Author:Ralph Washington Sockman

“A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation.”

Individual Process Productions Determined Meant To Be Duration Circuits Circulation Turnover

Book:Capital: The process of circulation of capital

Source: Capital: The process of circulation of capital

“The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production.”

Self Moments Individual Objects Produce Return Productions Productive Consumption Consuming Reproducing

Book:Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

Source: Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy

“By 'socialism' I mean a classless society in which the State has disappeared, production is cooperative, and no man has political or economic power over another. The touchstone would be the extent to which each individual could develop his own talents and personality.”

Men Mean States Would Be Political Individual Economic Talent Personality Productions Socialism Cooperatives Touchstones Economic Power Classless Society

Book:The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics

Source: The Root is Man: Two Essays in Politics

“Technical progress and more comfortable living permit the systematic inclusion of libidinal components into the realm of commodity production and exchange. But no matter how controlled the mobilization of instinctual energy may be (it sometimes amounts to a scientific management of libido), no matter how much it may serve as a prop for the status quo - it is also gratifying to the managed individuals, just as racing the outboard motor, pushing the power lawn mower, and speeding the automobile are fun.”

“No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling him to acquire ownership of the nonhuman factor of production: capital.”

Mean Wisdom Politics Individual Economy Productions Factors Liberalism Acquire Productive Ownership Enabling Factors Of Production

Book:Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“Money is not a part of the visible sector of the economy; people do not consume money. Money is not a physical factor of production, but rather a yardstick for measuring economic input, economic outtake and the relative values of the real goods and services of the economic world. Money provides a method of measuring obligations, rights, powers and privileges. It provides a means whereby certain individuals can accumulate claims against others, or against the economy as a whole, or against many economies.”

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“Work, work, proletarians, to increase social wealth and your individual poverty; work, work, in order that becoming poorer, you may have more reason to work and become miserable. Such is the inexorable law of capitalist production.”

May Reason Law Order Individual Social Wealth Poverty Becoming Increase Productions Miserable Capitalist Inexorable

Book:The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies

Source: The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies