“The problem with UBI is, you're creating a slippery slide transfer straight into socialism. The moment people can start voting themselves money, combined with democracy. It's a matter of time before the bottom 51 votes themselves top 49. The moment you start having a direct transfer mechanism like t…”— Naval Ravikant, youtube.com
“It’s been argued that the rising costs of college fall disproportionately on lower-income people, as well as on non-whites and non-Asians, who rely more heavily on loans to cover tuition, room and board, etc. than richer folks do.”— Adam Elder, melmagazine.com
“The logic of the meritocracy is leading us to ruin, because we are collectively primed to ignore the voices of the millions getting pushed into economic distress by the grinding wheels of automation and innovation. We figure they’re complaining or suffering because they’re losers.”— Andrew Yang, amazon.com
“While Florida’s strengths are America’s strengths, Florida’s problems are also America’s problems.”— R.T. Brant, bustle.com
“Charlie: I'll pull a Good Will Hunting. What's your major dude? Frat Boy: Economics Charlie: (In Boston accent) Oh, I bet you read a lotta Gordon Wood, huh? You read your Gordon Wood and you regurgitate it from a textbook and you think you're wicked awesome doin' that, And how 'bout' dem apples? And…”— Dave Chernin, Charlie Kelly, Charlie Day, imdb.com
“The question of 'nationalizing' a people is first and foremost one of establishing healthy social conditions which will furnish the grounds that are necessary for the education of the individual. For only when family upbringing and school education have inculcated in the individual a knowledge of th…”— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com
“If morality represents an ideal world, then economics represents the actual world.”— Steven D. Levitt, amazon.com
“In the Lewis model of a dual economy, much of the low-wage sector has little influence over public policy. Check. The high-income sector will keep wages down in the other sector to provide cheap labor for its businesses. Check. Social control is used to keep the low-wage sector from challenging the…”— Lynn Paramore, Peter Temin, ineteconomics.org
“Jennifer Jareau: Economics, philosophy, political theory. Not exactly breezy, take-to-the-beach reading. Dr. Spencer Reid: I would, but I don't really like the beach. Jennifer Jareau: Why is that? Dr. Spencer Reid: Sandy food, pink skin, limited and unengaging topography, but mostly drug-resistant b…”— Virgil Williams, Jennifer Jareau, A. J. Cook, imdb.com
“The mass of people in our economic system are required to live with the consequences of the decisions made by the corporate leaderships. Decisions for which they are excluded. Legally and in practice.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“The human race, if it wanted liberty, equality, fraternity and democracy. Would have to demise a system other and different than capitalism.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“Capitalism has always had people who love it and people who hate it.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“From 1929 - 1941, The United States had unemployment rates hovering around 20% to 25%, that's 5-6 times the unemployment we have now. And the unemployment we have now is a problem.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“Economics have been what philosophers call an agonistic field. A place in which different ways of understanding the economy contest with one another.”— Richard D. Wolff, youtube.com
“The capitalist State does not deal much with economy in the strict sense of the word; the latter is not in the hands of the State. On the contrary, the State is in the hands of capitalist economy.”— Joseph Stalin, newstatesman.com
“The modern economics of the newsroom don't support big investigative reporting staffs. You wouldn’t get a Watergate, a Pentagon Papers today, because nobody can afford to let a reporter spend seven months on a story. We can. We’re working as a support function.”— Steve Bannon, bloomberg.com
“The crucial problem isn’t creating new jobs. The crucial problem is creating new jobs that humans perform better than algorithms.”— Yuval Noah Harari, theguardian.com
“A strong market is like a high tide: Everyone can make money, but it’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.”— Warren Buffett, books.google.com
“It may lead to an equilibrium where the participant's views come to corrospend to the actual state of affairs.”— George Soros, youtube.com