#pit

The problem with Marxism is the proletariat isn’t going to rise up against capitalism and consumerism. The only time they’ll rise up is during a commercial break to either go to the bathroom or grab more beer.
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— Jarod Kintz

#beer #capitalism #commercials #communism #consumerism

Time and again our best and brightest have alerted society to looming problems, but our persistent pattern has been to ignore the warnings and suffer the consequences. The pathetic refrain of recent years --'Nobody saw this coming'--is always a self-serving lie. ↗

— Eugene Linden

#environmentalism #environmentalism

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#crisis #depression #despite #essentially #federal

The Yankees have better starting pitchers than Arizona. Arizona just has two... the Yanks have four. ↗

— Keith Hernandez

#better #four #just #pitchers #starting

Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#art #despite #entering #into #objective

It is possible that Mount Olympus may have supplied the poets with the hint for saying that Jupiter obtained the kingdom of heaven, because Olympus is the common name both of the mountain and of heaven. ↗

— Lactantius

#both #common #heaven #hint #jupiter

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus. ↗

— Lactantius

#capitol #city #dedicated #engines #had

The trade deficit is the capital surplus and don't ever think of having a capital surplus as being a bad thing for our country. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#bad thing #being #capital #country #deficit

I mean, everyone agrees with stress tests for banks. I mean that's clear. But banks should do that on their own. And they should worry about their own capital functioning. That's what they should do. It shouldn't be a government function. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#banks #capital #clear #everyone #function

Which would you rather have, capital lined up on your borders, trying to get into your country or trying to get out of your country? We are the capital magnet of this planet and we are the savior for not only people, for not only freedom, but also for capital. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#borders #capital #country #freedom #get