“No, wealth isn’t created at the top. It is merely devoured there.”
Rutger Bregman (1988) Dutch journalist, writer and historian
“Sometimes wealth and power merely created the desire for more of the same.”
Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 16 (p. 217)
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British scientist, American science fiction writer 1935–2002Related quotes
Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892–1927) Japanese writer
Yam Gruel (1916), in Rashomon and Other Stories https://books.google.it/books?id=DYHQAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT29 (Tuttle, 2011).
W. Brian Arthur (1946) American economist
Source: The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves. (2009), p. 10
“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”
Leonard E. Read (1898–1983) American academic
Anything That's Peaceful (1964)
Context: Socialism depends upon and presupposes material achievements which socialism itself can never create. Socialism is operative only in wealth situations brought about by motes of production other than its own. Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.
