#capital

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#architects #beautiful #been #beltway #boom

Workers do not strike every day, they cannot do that the way they function in the capitalist economy. The way they have to live by selling their labor power makes that impossible. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#capitalist #day #economy #every #every day

Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks. ↗

— Karl Marx

#dead #labor #lives #living #more

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer. ↗

— Karl Marx

#combining #develops #into #labourer #only

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs. ↗

— Karl Marx

#acquired #add #being #brings #capital

Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. ↗

— Karl Marx

#compulsion #health #laborer #length #life

I look at being a capitalist businessperson like riding a bike - if I go too slowly, I'll fall over. Or it's kind of like a shark: if I stop swimming, I'll just die. ↗

— Andrew Mason

#bike #businessperson #capitalist #die #fall

I invested in many companies, and I'm happy this one worked. This is capitalism. You invest in stock, it goes up, it goes down. You know, if you don't like capitalism, you don't like making money with stock, move to Cuba or China. ↗

— Terry McAuliffe

#china #companies #cuba #down #goes

Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ↗

— Ludwig von Mises

#capitalist #commercial #directed #economy #free

If I were a capitalist I would not give my employees health insurance with no deductible, which I do, including dental, and paid pregnancy leave. That's not called capitalism, that's called being a Christian and someone who believes in democracy, so that everyone should get a fair slice of the pie. ↗

— Michael Moore

#believes #called #capitalism #capitalist #christian