Today's workers are aware of the chasm that separates their lives from the wealth of others in Chinese society.
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The result has been a massive explosion of wealth creation among the middle and upper echelons of Indian society, with Indian billionaires now occupying four of the top eight slots on the annual Forbes rich list.
To really feel good about themselves, Obama and his followers have to assume that the government is going to do something of greater benefit to society than the creator of the wealth would do instead.
There is a huge qualitative difference between an economy built on natural resource extraction, where the populace is a cost center, and an economy built on productive labor by the population, where increasing capabilities of the society leads to more wealth.
They are taking the wealth from the lower strata of society, by closing factories and moving them overseas, and giving it to those who are already wealthy, those who are profiting from the closure of factories and their movement overseas.
Carnegie then used the pamphlet to outline how individuals of great wealth could give back to society, suggesting that acts of immense philanthropy can protect the affluent from the wrath of the poor.
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From the end of WWII to the end of the 1960s, the economic thinking was focused on the distribution of wealth and its use to better society.
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Believing that individuals are entitled to keep their wealth that they do not have a responsibility to share a part of their wealth with society accounted for the effects of a choice mind-set on attitudes toward redistributive policies.
At the same time, a new consumer brief from the Society of Actuaries suggests how much wealth you should have for coverage to make sense.
The rest of that wealth spills over to society at large as it becomes more productive and wealthier over time.
The more productive would naturally want to leave any regime of forced equalization of incomes and wealth, for they are just being plundered by the rest of society, and would be prevented from achieving their full potential.
In combination, these reforms would expand coverage, allow choice and lift the burden of health care from the companies that create jobs and wealth in our society--all without the bureaucracy and delays that would inevitably result from a single-payer, government-run system.
This country has allowed its great middle class to be raped, to have their wealth stolen, and to have the most productive society on the face of the earth give all of its wealth to a tiny few.
In this new world, where there is great wealth generated by the machines, but where that wealth is controlled by a small minority of the top investors, how will society cope, when an income from a job, is no longer available, as a means for participation in the economy?
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For it is that, precisely and exactly that, which allows the continual march forward to ever greater wealth of our society.
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This semi-rural peninsula of New York state, which juts out into the Atlantic in two thin forks, has become world-famous for its extraordinary wealth and privilege, and the high society of polo games, lawn parties and sports cars that go with it.
They want to understand what the larger implications are for society when the pursuit of profits leads to a systemic breakdown that destroys wealth for so many.
To the rest of the world, Russia looked like a cynical society where people were interested only in personal wealth and national muscle.
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Defending the record of Lib Democrat ministers since, Ms Williams said they had blocked Conservative plans to cut inheritance tax and "ensured the richest in society paid five times more of their wealth in tax".
Under the famed rule of Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, the concept of society was disregarded as something that bred dependency and inhibited wealth creation, and this philosophy led to the privatization of several industries and an increasing emphasis on empowering self-help and financial independence among citizens.
An increase in material wealth has not diminished many of the social problems associated with the most deprived parts of our society.
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Although the Chinese have been beneficiaries of an open international economic order, they could end up undermining it simply because, as an autocratic society, their priority is to preserve the state's control of wealth and the power that it brings.
The America that the show idealized a society in which every man had a job, inequalities of wealth were muted, and people were bound together in a tight community no longer existed, either.
He has less vindictive motives than Edmond Dantes of The Count of Monte Cristo for inserting himself in the society of those he knew when he was penniless, but Gatsby throws his wealth around as a point nonetheless.
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The Wealth of Nations, the original capitalist manifesto, proposes that market mechanisms are conducive to a prosperous society.
Two centuries before Rand arrived on the scene, Adam Smith had already written The Wealth of Nations, a powerful treatise demonstrating why self-interest offers a more secure foundation for a rational society than a selfless dedication to the common good.
The free market was responsible for creating wealth and progress in society and any hindrance to market forces was a hindrance of human progress.
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