#ono

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#economy

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#government #prosperity #taxes #taxing #economy

A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#economy #employee #employer #employment #job

Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on fucking with us. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#employment #following #hunting #tal-verrar #economy

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#economy

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. ↗

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

#economy

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#economy

Cheap booze is a false economy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#economy #value #wisdom #economy

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#social-structure #society #economy

Instead of engaging in cutthroat competition, we should strive to create value. In economic terms, this means a transition from a consumer economy - the mad rush for ownership and consumption - to a constructive economy where all human beings can participate in the act of creating lasting worth. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#peace #economy