this, but with a positive connotation
I guess the trouble was that we didn’t have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist.
John Steinbeck • America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction (Penguin Classics)
Anyone with a sneaking suspicion that socialism has a point, that people and their abilities are finite, is forever handicapped as a businessperson. If the pie is of a fixed size, one creates nothing, merely taking from others.
Rabbi Daniel Lapin • Thou Shall Prosper: Ten Commandments for Making Money
Riches seem to come to the poor in spirit, the poor in interest and joy. To put it straight—the very rich are a poor bunch of bastards. He wondered if that were true. They acted that way sometimes.
John Steinbeck • East Of Eden
The world is controlled by people with the skillset to succeed under capitalism, so it’s hard for them to understand other people’s despair because the system has been perfectly fine for them. Most people who say they dream of socialism are humanities-oriented and aren’t economists and technologists. Politicians either advocate for actions that obv... See more