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The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it. Michael Burry

Me Capitalism Money Free Perception Big Down Trial Sector Wealthy See Take Least Big Companies Private Private Sector Offers Wall Wall Street American Being Lender Little Held Companies Appears Media Street Differently

Quite a few plays I have written have an implicit critique of capitalism in that, if you follow it through to its end, what happens to the people who are left behind? Mike Bartlett

You Capitalism People Few Critique Follow Through Written Implicit Left End Quite Behind Happens Who Plays

Reckless capitalism kills black people. Mos Def

Capitalism People Black Reckless

Money commands everything because that's our interpretation of capitalism... what kind of world is that? It's a very uncomfortable interpretation of a human being. We have been turned into robots. Muhammad Yunus

Capitalism Human Being World Money Interpretation Our Everything Kind Uncomfortable Because Robots Been Commands Very Human Being Turned

Modern capitalism seeks to assure us that it operates according to the principles of free creativity, endless development and diversity. It glosses over its other side in order to hide the reality that millions of people are enslaved by an all-powerful and fantastically stable norm of production. We want to reveal this lie. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

Capitalism Reality Creativity Lie People Hide Free Diversity Other Assure Side Enslaved All-Powerful Seeks Development Over Principles Reveal Norm According Endless Modern Stable Order Want Us Production Millions Millions Of People

Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Capitalism Everyone Forced Order Compete

Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Capitalism People Mistakes Others About Adventurers Get Who Harm Harmed

At the heart of both democracy and capitalism is a simple assumption that, across the board, people make free and relatively rational decisions: that we are, to borrow a medical term, Gillick Competent. Nick Harkaway

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Join America taught English, an understanding of the U.S. Constitution, that the Bill of Rights is the ultimate insurance policy for a citizen, and that being a citizen is not an entitlement. And we also taught a bit of capitalism. Niger Innis

Capitalism Constitution Rights Entitlement Citizen Understanding Bit Join Also Policy Insurance Ultimate America Taught Being Bill Bill Of Rights English

Poland in the 1990s saw a surge of unrestrained, American-style capitalism. With millions of Poles living in the U.S.A., the defeat of communism led many to aim for a lifestyle derivative of Chicago or Detroit. Norman Davies

Capitalism Communism Living Defeat Aim Saw Detroit Lifestyle Poland Poles Surge Led Chicago Derivative Many Millions

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. Oswald Spengler

Capitalism Socialism Nothing Classes Lower

Since the end of the Cold War, metropolitan elites everywhere have identified progress and modernity with the cornucopia of global capitalism, the consolidation of liberal democratic regimes and the secular ethic of consumerism. Pankaj Mishra

Despite massive evidence to the contrary, libertarians hold tight to their romantic concept of capitalism, which, freed from government interference, serves the consumer with the best products at the lowest prices. Paul Craig Roberts

If it turns out that global warming and ocean acidification are consequences of capitalism's carbon-based energy system, the entire world could end up dead from the external costs of capitalism. Paul Craig Roberts

Capitalism World Ocean Energy Consequences System Out Entire Entire World Costs Could Global Dead Global Warming End Up Warming Turns External

In 21st century America, capitalism has been unfettered from the regulations that democratized it and made it serve society. Paul Craig Roberts

Capitalism Made Society Has-Been Been America Unfettered Century Regulations Serve

Big-government economics breeds crony capitalism. It's corrupt, anything but neutral, and a barrier to broad participation in prosperity. Paul Ryan

Capitalism Prosperity Economics Broad Corrupt Neutral Participation Anything Breeds Barrier

But we don't have an example of a democratic society existing in a socialist economy - which is the only real alternative to capitalism in the modern world. Peter L. Berger

Capitalism World Example Society Only Economy Democratic Alternative Democratic Society Real Existing Modern Which Modern World Socialist

It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democratic systems apart from capitalism, or apart from a market economy, if you prefer that term. Peter L. Berger

You Capitalism Be True Elsewhere Market Market Economy Has-Been Systems Find Seems True Term Economy Democratic Been Western Apart Prefer Societies

As we celebrate International Women's Day, it's not enough to applaud the contributions of women worldwide. We should also recognize and celebrate the opportunities and financial independence women enjoy because of entrepreneurial capitalism. Rachel Campos-Duffy

Day Capitalism Celebrate Women Financial Opportunities Independence Enjoy Enough Worldwide Recognize Entrepreneurial Also Because Contributions Should International Applaud

By killing transparency and competition, crony capitalism is harmful to free enterprise, opportunity, and economic growth. And by substituting special interests for the public interest, it is harmful to democratic expression. Raghuram Rajan

Capitalism Competition Opportunity Free Harmful Enterprise Free Enterprise Economic Economic Growth Democratic Interest Public Interests Public Interest Transparency Special Special Interests Expression Growth

Communism can't survive the captivating allure of capitalism. Rand Paul

Capitalism Communism Allure Survive Captivating

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