Capital requires the separation of the worker from the…

Like a good parent can't also be his child's best friend, a leader with authority requires some separation from subordinates.

— Simon Sinek

“First you need career capital, which requires patience. Second, you need to be ceaselessly scanning your always-changing view of the adjacent possible in your…

— Anonymous

Capital requires protection, as do the institutions through which it operates. As capital expands its operations, the state that is associated with its protection…

— Michael Parenti

“If we do not fix education in Africa, we are heading for monumental economic disaster.”

— Mmanti Umoh

“We begin with an infinite debt to something called "Society".”

— Debt The First 5 000 Years by David Graeber

“And that's the real reason the powerful fear open systems and networks. If anyone can set up a free voicecall to anyone else in…

— Cory Doctorow

“Oil may run out, liquidity may dry up, but as long as ink flows freely, the next chapter of Life will continue to be…

— Alex Morritt

Open-source is a means of production.

— Bruce Sterling

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other…

— Milton Friedman

Marx was wrong: It is not only the 'means of production' that shape societies, but the means of destruction. In our own time, the…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

“The means of production being the collective work of humanity, the product should be the collective property of the race. Individual appropriation is neither…

— Pyotr Kropotkin

What being a socialist means is... that you hold out... a vision of society where poverty is absolutely unnecessary, where international relations are not…

— Bernie Sanders

“Not to own the means of production can lead to premature death, but not to own the means of representation is also a kind…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

Society is best served when the means of production are in the possession of those who know how to use them best.

— Ludwig von Mises