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The best thing that ever happened to me is that nothing happened in writing. I ended up working for engineering companies, and that's where I found my material, in the everyday struggle between capitalism and grace. Being broke and tired, you don't come home your best self. George Saunders

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I still believe that capitalism is too harsh and I believe that, even within that, there is a lot of satisfaction and beauty if you happen to be one of the lucky ones, although that doesn't eradicate the reality of the suffering. It's all true at once, kind of humming and sublime. George Saunders

When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. Helen Mirren

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I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change. Helen Mirren

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At the highest stage of capitalism, the most necessary revolution appears as the most unlikely one. Herbert Marcuse

Capitalism Revolution Stage Unlikely Highest Most Appears Necessary

Markets are as old as the crossroads. But capitalism, as we know it, is only a few hundred years old, enabled by cooperative arrangements and technologies, such as the joint-stock ownership company, shared liability insurance, double-entry bookkeeping. Howard Rheingold

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Capitalism is destroying the world. Hugo Chavez

Capitalism World Destroying

Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them. Ian Mckellen

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No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. James Bobin

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It is an extreme perversion of capitalism if you can trade in something before you have even paid for it. James Dyson

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Self-dealing, essentially, occurs when managers run companies to line their own pockets instead of those of the companies' owners. It's been a perennial problem in American capitalism and became a real dilemma when America moved toward a model in which corporations would be run by professional managers who had only small ownership stakes. James Surowiecki

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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility. James Surowiecki

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Patrimonial capitalism's legacy is that many people see reform as a euphemism for corruption and self-dealing. James Surowiecki

Capitalism Corruption People See Legacy Reform Euphemism Many

Movies' mistrust of capitalism is almost as old as the medium itself. James Surowiecki

Capitalism Old Medium Almost Mistrust Itself Movies

Critics of consumer capitalism like to think that consumers are manipulated and controlled by those who seek to sell them things, but for the most part it's the other way around: companies must make what consumers want and deliver it at the lowest possible price. James Surowiecki

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While admirers of capitalism, we also to a certain extent believe it has limitations that require government intervention in markets to make them work. Janet Yellen

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Right now people seem to be very tentative about the positive benefits of capitalism. Jeb Bush

Positive Capitalism People Benefits About Seem Very Now Right

I think hard-core capitalism tends to commercialize everything. Jidenna

Capitalism Think Everything Tends

The way the credit cards were made in the '80s to be a people's form of capitalism and be able to make it so that you could get a loan that you would have been denied previous, now that's the way stocks are. Jim Cramer

The industrial society... recognises nothing except the power to acquire... No other kind of hope or satisfaction or pleasure can any longer be envisaged within the culture of capitalism. John Berger

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Why should the idea of Western liberal democracy automatically imply unregulated free-market capitalism? John Lanchester

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Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short. John Mackey

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