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"Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way."
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"Every time I watch a person awaken to their inner strength, I see what we're made of, and we're magnificent. We're brilliant. We really are. We crave magic because we are magic. We crave power because we are pure power."
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"It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest."
"So, there is enormous instability in the global economy with a shift of winners and losers."
"But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living."
"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."
"There is a huge shift taking place in the global awareness in the last 5 years with strong views about globalization and the power structures of major corporations."
"There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change."
"In a world of increasing inequality, the legitimacy of institutions that give precedence to the property rights of "the Haves" over the human rights of "the Have Nots" is inevitably called into serious question."
"If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining."
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