#con

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching something burn down. ↗

— Lewis Black

#budget #comedy #economy #fire #police

Let us have the candor to acknowledge that what we call "the economy" or "the free market" is less and less distinguishable from warfare. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#economy

No nation has ever taxed itself into prosperity. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#government #prosperity #taxes #taxing #economy

A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#economy #employee #employer #employment #job

Know something? I'd lay even odds that between the people following us and the people hunting us, we've become this city's principle means of employment. Tal Verrar's entire economy is now based on fucking with us. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#employment #following #hunting #tal-verrar #economy

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#economy

Development is about transforming the lives of people, not just transforming economies. ↗

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

#economy

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#economy

Cheap booze is a false economy. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#economy #value #wisdom #economy

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#social-structure #society #economy