“Modern man is alienated from himself, from his fellow men, and from nature. He has been transformed into a commodity, experiences his life forces as an investment which must bring him the maximum profit obtainable under existing market conditions.” MenHas BeensForceModernConditionsFellowsInvestmentProfitTransformedConsumerismCommodityMaximumFellow ManOverconsumptionModern Man Book:THE ART OF LOVING Source: THE ART OF LOVING
“To survive in modern times, a company must have an organizational structure that accepts change as its basic premise, lets tribal customs thrive, and fosters a power that is derived from respect, not rules. In other words, the successful companies will be the ones that put quality of life first. Do this and the rest - quality of product, productivity of workers, profits for all - will follow.” FirstsQualityCompanyAcceptingSuccessfulModernProductsStructureWorkersProfitProductivityThriveCustomsQuality Of LifePremisesOrganizationalModern TimesAccepting ChangeSuccessful CompanyOrganizational Structure Author:Ricardo Semler
“Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.” MenWorldKindWisdomPoliticalSupportEconomicModernProduceCitizensMassFoundationStructureCompetitionPropertyProfitProportionRebellionThreateningWorthlessModern WorldProletariatEconomic FreedomPolitical FreedomSmall ManUsuryUnfree Author:Hilaire Belloc
“Economists talk about profit motive, but nothing motivates modern man more than a chance to avoid taxes!” MenChanceModernTaxesProfitMotiveEconomistModern ManProfit Motive Author:Peter Drucker
“One out of every eight prisoners in the world is an African American. We are warehousing people as a profit to shareholders or for benefits to communities that get to host federal prisons. It is modern slavery.” PeopleWorldCommunityModernBenefitsSlaveryPrisonProfitEightAfrican AmericanPrisonerHostShareholdersModern Slavery Author:Randall Robinson