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In our case [the United States] it happens to be basically corporate structure. Much of the population is going to be harmed by that.…

— Noam Chomsky

“United States, along with Canada and the United Kingdom, has become a “plutonomy” where “economic growth is powered by, and largely consumed by, the…

— Nicholas Carr

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually…

— Arundhati Roy

There is a long American tradition of suspicion of concentrated economic power because of its tendency to corrupt government and turn it from a…

— Zephyr Teachout

Half the U.S. population owns barely 2 percent of its wealth, putting the United States near Rwanda and Uganda and below such nations as…

— Eric Alterman

The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making…

— Bill Moyers

We live in a country where a small number of people have incredible wealth and power. America has more income and wealth inequality than…

— Bernie Sanders

The U.S. and, to a certain extent, countries in Europe as well, have experienced growing inequality within their population for decades - a small…

— Nicholas Bloom

The economic system that the United States has is an evil empire. It's an economic system that's not fair, not just, and it's not…

— Michael Moore

Most of the time in America, we're surrounded by oppressive inequality such that the wealthiest 1 percent collectively own substantially more than the bottom…

— Nicholas Kristof

It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should…

— Bernie Sanders