“Capitalists work hard to produce what consumers want. Artists who work too hard to produce what consumers want are often accused of selling out. Thus, even the languages of capitalism and art conflict: a firm that has 'sold out' has succeeded, but an artist that has 'sold out' has failed.” WantArtHardArtistLanguageProduceHard WorkConflictCapitalismSellingConsumersFirmCapitalistAccusedSelling OutSold Out Author:Alex Tabarrok
“The laws of thermodynamics restrict all technologies, man's as well as nature's, and apply to all economic systems whether capitalist, communist, socialist, or fascist. We do not create or destroy (produce or consume) anything in a physical sense- we merely transform or rearrange. And the inevitable cost of arranging greater order in one part of the system (the human economy) is creating a more than offsetting amount of disorder elsewhere (the natural environment).” MenHumansWellsLawOrderNaturalTechnologyEconomyEnvironmentGreaterEconomicProduceAmountCostCreatingInevitableCommunistDisorderCapitalistElsewhereSocialistFascistsNatural EnvironmentEconomic SystemsArrangingThermodynamics Author:Herman E. Daly
“The more successful capitalists are in cutting their wage costs, the less money workers will have to buy back what those same capitalists produce. It's a contradiction.” SuccessfulCuttingProduceCostWorkersContradictionCapitalist Author:Richard D. Wolff
“A cooperative enterprise is the key alternative to a traditional capitalist enterprise. All the workers, whatever they do inside an enterprise, have to be able to participate in collectively arriving at the decisions about what, how, where to produce, and what to do with the profits in a democratic way. One person, one vote should decide how these things are done.” WayShouldPersonsDoneAbleDecisionProduceKeysVoteDemocraticWorkersProfitTraditionalAlternativesEnterpriseCapitalistArrivingCooperatives Author:Richard D. Wolff
“Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person.” WantHumansPersonsStillsFactsGivenEnvironmentProduceProtectDignityImpactCorporationsHuman LifeCapitalistProfitability Author:Dean Smith
“The effect of capitalism is to steer human selfishness so that, through the invisible hand of competition, the energies of the capitalist produce the abundance from which the whole society benefits.” HumansWholeHandsEnergyEffectsProduceBenefitsCapitalismCompetitionInvisibleSelfishnessAbundanceCapitalistSteersInvisible Hand Book:What's So Great About Christianity Source: What's So Great About Christianity
“We have taken plants from the capitalist system where the most important thing was to produce, especially in Cuba.” ImportantTakenProduceImportant ThingsPlantCapitalistCuba Author:Che Guevara