The hollowing out of the middle class is a problem common to all Western industrialized economies. Maybe we should work together to… — Chrystia Freeland Copy Share Image
“The golf links lie so near the mill That almost every day The laboring children can look out And see the men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Inequality is going to be a big issue, but competence is going to be the biggest issue. [People] want to see somebody… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality,… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
It's much more acceptable for men to work and father kids. There's an inherent inequality, because we want to do it all,… — Julia Louis-Dreyfus Copy Share Image
“I would have hoped you would have learned by now. No matter, a man who refuses to face his destiny offers himself… — J.B. Lion Copy Share Image
“the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the middle classes, that occurred in France during the Third Republic and the… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly… — Ellen Cushing Copy Share Image
It costs a lot of money to go into cafes to breastfeed when out in public. Not everyone has the money to… — Jill Johnston Copy Share Image
Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
I want the government in the DRC and everywhere where gender inequality is a problem, it's not only an African problem, to… — Margot Wallstrom Copy Share Image
Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society… — Susan George Copy Share Image
For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
People on left have to better understand what are the benefits of inequality, and people on right have to understand better what… — Angus Deaton Copy Share Image
People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion,… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Overwhelming and astounding inequality,especially when it has an element of the unattainable, arouses far less envy than minimal inequality, which inevitably causes… — Helmut Schoeck Copy Share Image
If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The world I grew up in was a brutal one. The murder rate was once seven people for every hundred thousand. The… — Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Copy Share Image
“At its most basic, the logic of 'meritocracy' is ironclad: putting the most qualified, best equipped people into the positions of greates… — Christopher Hayes Copy Share Image
The fundamental purpose of Marxism is the total control of a population under the belief that individualism and free markets lead to… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Our democratic societies rest on a meritocratic worldview, or at any rate a meritocratic hope, by which I mean a belief in… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
We economists, in our classes, teach students that to some degree, price discrimination is actually a good thing; that it allows you… — Uwe Reinhardt Copy Share Image
“In short, this latest attempt to debunk the notion that we’ve become a vastly more unequal society has itself been debunked. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Like any developing country, it has an inequality of wealth. In the Chinese case, it is particularly [pronounced] by the fact that… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
When fewer workers have unions, the standard of living falls for everyone and the gap between the rich and poor grows. — John Sweeney Copy Share Image
The literature associating inequality with social instability and poor health outcomes is pretty convincing. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality. — Kevin Watkins Copy Share Image
At my public school I had hated every other face for fear the owner was a lord, at university, I was to… — Henry Green Copy Share Image
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
A society that gives to one class all the opportunities for leisure, and to another all the burdens of work, dooms both… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
When humans invented material inequality, they came up with a way of subjugating the low-ranking like nothing ever seen before in the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Economic inequality is a corrosive force that undermines economic growth, puts a brake on the fight against poverty, and sparks social unrest. — Winnie Byanyima Copy Share Image
“People were lost and people were scared and their lynch ropes couldn't reach bankers or stockbrokers, so they looked for targets closer… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
Yeah, maybe that's the way to solve the gender inequality that's naturally in relationships: to have a lot more power in the… — Celine Song Copy Share Image
Some people think that gender equality is the biggest issue on the table, and to me, that's a privilege to even think… — Wunmi Mosaku Copy Share Image
Obviously, I have certain policy positions that I push and advocate for that would benefit people dealing in a system that breeds… — Tim Ryan Copy Share Image
There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The main force pushing toward reduction in inequality has always been the diffusion of knowledge and the diffusion of education. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The American middle class has always existed to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable: settled values with unsettled ones, social mobility with a sense… — Tom Junod Copy Share Image
If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and… — Manmohan Singh Copy Share Image
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