Commons Quote by Guy Standing

What distinguishes a commons is that it is not private property, does not have a price, and is oriented towards 'use value' rather than…

— Guy Standing

“Since people can only be paid for their goods and services or extract rent from society, less income is available to service the payment…

— Martin Adams

If the Internet teaches us anything, it is that great value comes from leaving core resources in a commons, where they're free for people…

— Lawrence Lessig

“With deregulation, privatisation, free trade, what we're seeing is yet another enclosure and, if you like, private taking of the commons. One of the…

— Elaine Bernard

Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.

— Zig Ziglar

Spending creates more wealth for everybody.

— Charles M. Schwab

The grim truth is that the rich are able to live as they do only because others are poor: there is neither the physical…

— George Monbiot

Rent-control laws disproportionately benefit the non-poor because the elite pull strings, work the system and are better connected than the non-poor.

— Larry Elder

A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same…

— Jeremy Rifkin

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to…

— Jordan Peterson

In a monetary system, most of us live near our work with a house, car, and lifestyle we can afford (or, all too often,…

— Jacque Fresco

With fewer resources to share around more people, how can the poor have improved lifestyles?

— Bindi Irwin