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Browsing Quotes With Tag: wall-street (2)

  • whenever there are some people calling for the elimination of the class that lives by collecting interest, there will be others to object that this will destroy the livelihood of widows and pensioners.

    Speaker: David Graeber
    Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:37 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: class, wall-street, wealth

  • I see, therefore, the rentier aspect of capitalism as a transitional phase which will disappear when it has done its work. And with the disappearance of its rentier aspect much else in it besides will suffer a sea-change. It will be, moreover, a great advantage of the order of events which I am advocating, that the euthanasia of the rentier, of the functionless investor, will be nothing sudden, merely a gradual but prolonged continuance of what we have seen recently in Great Britain, and will need no revolution.

    Speaker: John Maynard Keynes
    Source: Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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    Posted: 10 Nov 2014 at 11:32 AM
    Posted By: Puck
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    Tags: capitalism, investing, wall-street, wealth