this, but with a positive connotation
Poverty and unemployment become individual failings rather than unwanted features of the economy.
Amelia Horgan • Lost in Work: Escaping Capitalism (Outspoken by Pluto)
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)
"Oh, I have what a lot of people would probably call communistic thoughts," said Eliot artlessly, "but, for heaven's sakes, Father, nobody can work with the poor and not fall over Karl Marx from time to time—or just fall over the Bible, as far as that goes. I think it's terrible the way people don't share things in this country. I th
... See moreKurt Vonnegut • God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater: A Novel
But if you’re surrounded by people who say ‘I want mine now,’ you end up with a few people with everything and a military to keep the poor ones from rising up and stealing it.”
Mitch Albom • Tuesdays with Morrie
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