Best Quote by Virginia Postrel

A higher standard of living also brings about a higher standard of culture and civilization.

— Ludwig von Mises

“If you want to raise your standard of living, raise your standard of giving”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of…

— Robert Trout

The great challenge of the twenty-first century is to raise people everywhere to a decent standard of living while preserving as much of the…

— Anonymous

“When significant numbers of people see their standards of living fall despite an ever-growing economic pie, it threatens the social contract of the economy…

— Erik Brynjolfsson

“Come up with initiatives that can give people more access to better and higher living.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Politicians, a moribund labor movement, and the mass media—either cowed or in the service of corporate power—assure the population that the old prosperity is…

— Chris Hedges

If you increase living standards, you make labor more productive. This is why Asia today is becoming more productive than the United States.

— Michael Hudson

Many of the products which create a modern standard of living are only the physical incorporations of ideas- not only the ideas of an…

— Thomas Sowell

Rising inequality is a cultural and economic cancer on a lot of different levels.

— Kevin Drum

It is historically the case that virtually every new zone incorporated into the world-economy established levels of real remuneration which were at the bottom…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

Upward mobility across classes peaked in the U.S. in the late 19th century. Most of the gains of the 20th century were achieved en…

— Ben Fountain