“War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.”
Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VIII, Conclusion, p. 224
“Socialism takes and redistributes wealth, but it is utterly incapable of creating wealth.”
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.
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“Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.”
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http://motls.blogspot.com/2009/10/poland-rejects-global-carbon-communism.html#more
The Reference Frame http://motls.blogspot.com/
Andrea Dworkin
(1946–2005) Feminist writer
Norah Vincent, Sex, Love and Politics, id., p. 41, col. 1.
Sarah Palin
(1964) American politician
Rally in West Chester, Ohio, , quoted in [2008-10-17, Palin Aligns Obama’s Economic Policies with ‘Socialism’, Elizabeth, Holmes, Washington Wire, The Wall Street Journal, http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/17/palin-aligns-obamas-economic-policies-with-socialism/]
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2014
Source: 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism
Michele Bachmann
(1956) American politician
Edwatch conference, October 10-11, 2003
on Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's "Tax-Free Zones" initiative
2000s
“… a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention…”
Herbert A. Simon
(1916–2001) American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and psychologist
Simon, H. A. (1971) "Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World" in: Martin Greenberger, Computers, Communication, and the Public Interest, Baltimore. MD: The Johns Hopkins Press. pp. 40–41.
1960s-1970s
Context: In an information-rich world, the wealth of information means a dearth of something else: a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
“Manufacturing creates wealth, services distribute it.”
Gregory Benford
(1941) Science fiction author and astrophysicist
Source: Short fiction, The Man Who Sold The Stars (2013), p. 320