Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.
The rule of law does not do away with the unequal distribution of wealth and power, but reinforces that inequality with the authority of law. It allocates wealth and poverty in such calculated and indirect ways as to leave the victim bewildered.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.
The distribution of wealth is not determined by nature. It is determined by policy.
What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.
In a condition of society and under an industrial organization which places labor completely at the mercy of capital, the accumulations of capital will necessarily be rapid, and an unequal distribution of wealth is at once to be observed.
If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth. . . we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.
Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.
The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution into rent, interest, wages, and profits is only remotely related to the subject. This subject, the causes and cures for the actual distribution of capital and income among real persons, is one of the many now in need of our best efforts as scientific students of society.
The uneven distribution of wealth in the world is due to the uneven distribution of capitalism.
The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.
I knew that it is out of the question to have honest, economical government while a few are inordinately rich and the great mass of men are poor. In fact, it is to be doubted if anything really worthwhile can be done until there is a fairer distribution of wealth.
We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society.
The problem in Guatemala is that there is no solution to the issue of human rights. The problem is militarization, it is the injust distribution of wealth. It is intolerance of the indigenous, it is discrimination and marginalization.
Organized labor is the only way to have fair distribution of wealth.
The massive upward distribution of wealth engineered by our political class over the last few decades has solidified the plutocratic control of the rule-making machinery in Washington and state capitals.
