Annalee Newitz Quotes

Let some people get rich first.

In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

In India, the concentration of wealth is in a few hands.

Liberals are concerned about the concentration of wealth because it almost inevitably leads to a concentration of power that undermines democracy.

A huge dollar bill is the most accurate way to teach children the real motto of the United States: In the Almighty Dollar We Trust... Until the average American realizes that capitalism damages her livelihood while augmenting the livelihoods of the wealthy, the Almighty Dollar will continue to rule. It certainly is not ruling in our favor.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

Social inequality … divides society into two classes -- the wage-slaves and the grabbers of capital

The Tory approach depended on benefits trickling down from a process that inevitably strengthened the already strong.

But the most common and durable source of faction [political parties] has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

There’s just too much money in the hands of too few.

…of all the causes of seditions and changes in the Republic, there is none greater than the excessive wealth of a few subjects, and the extreme poverty of the majority.

The whole policy of the Cotton dynasty tends necessarily to making broader the chasm between these orders is most apparent. It makes the rich richer, and the poor poorer; for, as, according to the creed of the dynasty, capital should own labor, and the labor thus owned can alone successfully produce cotton.

… there is inherent in the dynamics of capitalism a natural and destabilizing tendency toward inequality of income, wealth and opportunity.

By 2015, the top 1 percent of families took home more than 20 percent of income. Wealth distribution was 10 times worse than that: the families in the top 1 percent owned as much as the families in the bottom 90 percent.

I'm not going to do class warfare; I want to be wealthy.

Wealth is used to entrench inequality, not to trickle down and solve it.

The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.

There's a wealth gap that is happening, and that is all over the world, you know? The rich are getting richer and holding a higher percentage of money or wealth that's out there.

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.