“To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.” ShouldFirstsSocialSecurityBenefitsGainsIncreaseImpactWorkersIncomeConsumersTypicalSocial SecurityInflationAmerican Workers Author:Steven Rattner
“If you wait for customers to tell you that you need to do something, you're too late. Good business leaders should be half a step ahead of what customers want, i.e. they don't actually quite know they want it. That's what innovation's about. With Plan A, we didn't wait for the consumers to tell us.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsShouldWaitingHalfLeaderStepsPlansLateInnovationCustomersConsumersToo LateBusiness LeadersGood Business Author:Stuart Rose
“I think people should be consumers of journalism.” PeopleThinkingShouldJournalismConsumers Author:Andrew Vachss
“The whole attempt to advance the kind of consumer society that depends for its growth on the ceaseless stimulation of unlimited covetousness among the rich, while the poor majority rot in their poverty-this is surely something against which a Christian should be a nonconformist.” ShouldKindWholeChristianGrowthPoorPovertyRichDependsMajorityConsumersConsumerismUnlimitedOverconsumptionStimulationCovetousnessNonconformist Author:Lesslie Newbigin
“We had learned how to invent things, and the question of why we invent things receded in importance. The idea that if something could be done it should be done was born in the nineteenth century. And along with it, there developed a profound belief in all the principles through which invention succeeds: objectivity, efficiency, expertise, standardization, measurement, and progress. It also came to be believed that the engine of technological progress worked most efficiently when people are conceived of not as children of God or even as citizens but as consumers-that is to say, as markets.” PeopleIfsShouldChildrenIdeasDoneBeliefBornPrinciplesProgressCenturyCitizensSucceedImportanceProfoundInventionConsumersEnginesEfficiencyConsumerismTechnologicalExpertiseMeasurementObjectivityNineteenth CenturyChild Of GodOverconsumptionTechnological ProgressStandardization Book:Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology Source: Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
“If you voluntarily label a product as being unsuitable for kids and then turn around and market it directly to kids in contradiction of your ratings system, then you should be held accountable just like any other company in America that misleads consumers. That's not censorship. That's common sense.” IfsShouldKidsAmericaTurnsCommonCompanyProductsCommon SenseLabelsConsumersContradictionCensorshipMisleadRating Author:Joe Lieberman
“It is high time that the E.U.'s internal market delivered substantially lower communications charges for consumers and business people traveling abroad. A mobile-phone customer should not be charged a higher tariff just because he -- or she -- is traveling abroad.” PeopleShouldCommunicationHigherPhonesCustomersConsumersInternalsMobileMobile PhonesTariffs Author:Viviane Reding