Bankers Quote by Slavoj Žižek

The poor pay more, and that's one of the reasons people get trapped at the bottom of the economic ladder.

— Elizabeth Warren

“In reality high profits tend much more to raise the price of (a piece of) work than high wages. (quoting Adam Smith - ch.…

— John Ralston Saul

The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder…

— Karl Marx

Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the…

— James Sinegal

In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse.

— Karl Marx

When people who earn more than the average have their 'surplus', or the greater part of it, seized from them in taxes, and when…

— Henry Hazlitt

What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.

— Karl Marx

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in…

— Simone Weil

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

— Karl Marx

“The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.”

— Julie Rivkin

The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of…

— Thomas Paine

“Managers receiving hundreds of thousands a year—and setting their compensation for themselves—are not being paid wages, they are appropriating surplus value in the guise…

— Michael Harrington