"...That total action is not to kill another but to see the divisions that have brought about this destruction of man." ~ Krishnamurti "The impossible question"
"Race Persists because it continues to be politically useful."
“Reviewing the history of official racial classifications reminds us that these categories are not natural – and neither are the institutional inequities that race undergirds.”
— Dorothy Roberts
#quotesoftheday
"Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives."
—Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World
#book#recommend#basicincome#goodreads#UBI#povertyreduction
"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural it is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."
—Nelson Mandela
#quote#slavery#apartheid#poverty#manmade#abolish
"The COVID pandemic in 2020 shows us how much the world has changed. In today’s positive-sum economy your own economic well-being depends on the well-being of others and it is in your own self-interest that others are healthy and well."
— Max Roser
#quotesaboutlife#covid19
"It seems wrong in a society as wealthy as ours that a person working full-time can't get above the poverty line."
— Peter Van Buren
#quote#economy#wage#society#wealthy#poverty
"According to the Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances, taken in 2019, the median net worth of U.S. households was $121,700.11 Thus, a trillionaire would have wealth equal to 8.2 million times that of the typical American family." #wealth https://t.co/fP9QIRhB9G
"If a person, who doesn’t have a car, doesn’t live in a great place, doesn’t need any protection, why is he paying some extra taxes? To enjoy such benefits by the government of the United States of America, the wealthy should pay more taxes." #taxes#rich
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"The wealthy and corporations—including Wall Street—not paying their fair share of means that hardworking Americans and small businesses have had to pick up the slack. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to shine a light on the need" #covid19
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The top three richest on Earth as of February 2022 are Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman Bernard Arnault.
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