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(108,898 total)“Our current tax policy rewards capital gains (extraction) with a very low tax rate, while punishing dividends (along with revenue, earnings, and payroll) at a very high tax rate. If we want to promote transactions and circulation, we should reverse that.”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Douglas Rushkoff on How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity – and How To Fix It — NewCo Shift
“Bernie Sanders’s impact is limited because he attacks business and billionaires. That’s not the way to communicate with them and create change. The better approach is to show how the current game plan isn’t simply contributive to wealth inequality and incompatible with the survival of the human spec…”
— Douglas Rushkoff, Douglas Rushkoff on How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity – and How To Fix It — NewCo Shift
“No, things haven't really changed. But ultimately, I still believe that there is only one institution that can help. Not the government, not the law. The media is the only salvation. The only hope for us is the press, but the press is deeply polluted. The media can be a powerful corrective to untrut…”
— Harry Evans, Legendary Editor Harry Evans Has This to Say About Today's "Deeply Polluted" Media
“I love that we have so many new sources now. Slate, Salon, BuzzFeed, The Daily Beast — they do great work. But with all the fragmentation of reporting and opinion, we've lost something important. The institutionalized weight of the press used to make a difference. It used to mean something if the Ti…”
— Harry Evans, Legendary Editor Harry Evans Has This to Say About Today's "Deeply Polluted" Media
“If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don’t have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don’t have to be supremely gifted teachers. Most of the stuff parents do with flashcards and special drills and tutorials to hone their kids int…”
— David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
“Instead of adjusting his policies to the reality, and adjusting his perception of reality to the changing realities on the ground, the conclusions Obama draws are exactly the same, no matter what the costs have been to our strategic interests. In an odd way, Obama reminds me of Bush.”
— Anonymous, The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru
“When we sit in Washington and debate foreign policy, it’s like a Risk game, or it’s all about us, or the human beings disappear from the decisions. But Obama lived in a place where he was surrounded by people who had either perpetrated those acts — and by the way, may not have felt great about that…”
— Ben Rhodes, The Aspiring Novelist Who Became Obama’s Foreign-Policy Guru