#market

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons. ↗

— Douglas Rushkoff

#data-mining #humanity #marketing #life

His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked into the mirror, at her birthmark, bright as blood, at her kiss-stung lips, at the absurd smile stretching across her face. Carefully separating out the crushed pieces of shell, she pulled the dried pulp free from its cage of veins. Piece by piece, she put the sweet brown fruit in her own mouth and swallowed it down. ↗

— Holly Black

#holly-black #night-market #the-poison-eaters #love

Free markets and capitalism are predicated upon the definition of greed as altruistic in economics". ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#capitalism #free-enterprise #free-markets #greed-good #r-alan-woods

It is because every individual knows little and, in particular, because we rarely know which of us knows best best that we trust the independent and competitive efforts of many to induce the emergence of what we shall want when we see it. ↗

— Friedrich A. von Hayek

#freedom #liberty #market #freedom

The greatest enemies of freedom are the extremely rich and the extremely poor, because one is willing to buy it while the other is willing to sell it. ↗

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

#freedom

Commoners Supermarket! Commoners Supermarket! ↗

— Hikaru and Koaru Hitachiin

#manga #supermarkets #humor

When you take a look at the problems our country is facing, debt is No. 1. The math is downright scary and the credit markets aren't going to keep on giving us cheap rates. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#country #credit #debt #downright #facing

Dinner conversations with telemarketers are so much livelier than saying you’re not interested and then checking your new message afterwards. ↗

— Bauvard

#humor #loneliness #phones #telemarketing #funny

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying. ↗

— Jil Sander

#language #like #market #saying #understand

Government experts have estimated that ANWR reserves would only provide enough oil for six months of U.S. oil consumption. In addition, the oil industry itself has estimated that it would take 10 years to bring this oil to the market. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#anwr #bring #consumption #enough #estimated