“This is how you entrench inequality: We let the poor “invest” in lottery tickets, sports gambling and casinos but not startups. The first three are perennial losers. Startups have returned 15% over the past 50 years.”— Chamath Palihapitiya, twitter.com
“Nearly 1 in 3 American workers run out of money before payday—even those earning over $100,000.”— Megan Leonhardt, cnbc.com
“Over the last 30 years, the top one percent have seen a $21 trillion increase in their wealth, [while the] bottom half of America [has had] a decline in their wealth. A lot of that is attributable to the agenda of the wealthy. And that agenda is brought about, is implemented, by their campaign contr…”— Bernie Sanders, capitalandmain.com
“Over the years, America’s middle class had been deliberately hollowed out.”— Elizabeth Warren, masslive.com
“While the rich get richer they live longer lives. While poor and working families struggle economically and often lack adequate health care, their life expectancy is declining for the first time in modern American history.”— Bernie Sanders, vox.com
“Today, nearly 40 million Americans live in poverty and tonight, 500,000 people will be sleeping out on the streets. About half of the country lives paycheck to paycheck as tens of millions of our people are an accident, a divorce, a sickness or a layoff away from economic devastation.”— Bernie Sanders, vox.com
“When we talk about oligarchy, let us be clear about what we mean. Right now, in the United States of America, three families control more wealth than the bottom half of our country, some 160 million Americans. The top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 92% and 49% of all new income generated today g…”— Bernie Sanders, vox.com
“You know the difference between me and you? I bleed red and you bleed green.”— Richard Price, Avon Barksdale, Wood Harris, imdb.com
“What would this country be if our economy didn’t allow wealthy people to take advantage of rubes?”— John Riggi, Kenneth Parcell, Jack Mcbrayer, imdb.com
“The middle class is dying, you’ll be renting forever.”— John Riggi, Jack Donaghy, Alec Baldwin, imdb.com
“It's amazing we have this incredible tech thing going on in Silicon Valley, and if you go just to the East Bay, across the Bay Bridge or the Dumbarton Bridge, you're in this basically failing state, this failing state that, you know, in the next recession probably will go broke.”— Peter Thiel, sfgate.com
“If you look at the world and say yes, there are enough homes for people, yes, there is enough food for people, but if we give it away for free they won’t have earned it and the economy will collapse. Then you have chosen money (a constructed medium of exchange) over living beings who only want to co…”— Markus Bones, markusbones.tumblr.com
“We can now take care of everybody at a higher standard of living than anybody has ever known. It does not have to be "you or me," so selfishness is unnecessary and war is obsolete.”— Buckminster Fuller, amazon.com
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatise those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.”— Sarah Kendzior, aljazeera.com
“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.”— Louis Brandeis, brandeis.edu