“Business often does a good job supporting communities: the arts, universities, and scientific enterprises... But that philosophy has rarely reached poor countries. Even businesses that are enlightened in their home bases see Africa, Latin America, and parts of Asia as places to exploit natural resources or use cheap labor.” DoeArtCountryPhilosophyUseHomeJobsAmericaCommunityNaturalPoorResourcesLaborBasesUniversityEnterpriseEnlightenedLatinAsiaGood JobExploitsLatin AmericaNatural ResourcesPoor CountriesCheap LaborHome Base Author:Jeffrey Sachs
“As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works.” MenWorldLongNaturalExistenceThis WorldLabor Book:Essays and Poems Source: Essays and Poems
“The idea is the least labor and capital and resources you put together and the more you accumulate the better capitalist you are. So the suggestion I will make to you is that the idea of constant accumulation, which is what America is about, what consumerism, NAFTA are about, means that you always take more than you need and you don't leave the rest. So I suggest that it is possible from an indigenous world view that capitalism is inherently out of order with natural law.” WorldNeedsMeanIdeasTogetherAmericaLawOrderNaturalViewsCapitalismResourcesLaborConstantCapitalistConsumerismSuggestionsIndigenousAccumulationNatural LawOverconsumptionWorld ViewNaftaLabor And Capital Author:Winona LaDuke
“A natural talent is required; for, when Nature opposes, everything else is in vain; but when Nature leads the way to what is most excellent, instruction in the art takes place, which the student must try to appropriate to himself by reflection, becoming an early pupil in a place well adapted for instruction. He must also bring to the task a love of labor and perseverance, so that the instruction taking root may bring forth proper and abundant fruits.” WayTryingWellsMayArtNaturalTalentStudentsBecomingReflectionLaborTasksRootsFruitPerseveranceVainExcellentAppropriateInstructionPupilsAdaptedNatural Talent Book:Selected Works Source: Selected Works
“No tin-hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibble-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, or divert its purpose to play its natural and rational part in the development of the economic, political and social life of our nation.” PlayPoliticalPurposeNationsSocialNaturalEconomicDevelopmentLaborPaidRationalCorporationsHatsMarchSocial LifeGeeseTinScoundrelsBabblingVigilante Author:John L. Lewis
“Russia became a juicy chunk of the Third World, with immense reserves of cheap labor, a vast treasure of natural resources, and industrial assets to be sold off at giveaway prices.” WorldPoliticalNaturalResourcesLaborThirdsTreasureRussiaAssetsImmenseReservesNatural ResourcesThird WorldChunksJuicyCheap Labor Book:Dirty Truths Source: Dirty Truths
“The Lockean assumption that if we put our labor to it then it becomes our own is totally fallacious. We have to figure out how to leave things alone, and build an economic system that's not built on a linear model, but instead on a cyclical model, because that's the natural world - it's cyclical and not linear. That is going to take a lot of transformation.” IfsWorldNaturalEconomicFiguresModelsBuiltLaborTransformationEnvironmentalAssumptionSustainabilityNatural WorldLinearEconomic Systems Author:Winona LaDuke