Sentences with phrase «behind by capitalism»

One Occupy rally I stumbled across here in Toronto featured speakers from a big trade union, members of which enjoy jobs that pay relatively well, and a representative of one of Canada's aboriginal groups, whose complaints are legitimate but have little to do with having been left behind by capitalism.

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Buffett agreed that capitalism is brutal to capital, but said that, «a rich society can actually... take care of [those left behind by the economy].»
The moral treason of the «conservative» leaders lies in the fact that they are hiding behind that camouflage: they do not have the courage to admit that the American way of life was capitalism, that that was the politico - economic system born and established in the United States, the system which, in one brief century, achieved a level of freedom, of progress, of prosperity, of human happiness, unmatched in all the other systems and centuries combined — and that that is the system which they are now allowing to perish by silent default.
«Indeed, this is what many in business say they're being told by Government Ministers, but of course behind the hand, because this is the exact opposite of what the mass of voters are being told when promised a fairer capitalism with a better deal for the workers.
Jesper Just's eerie 2013 video, Intercourses, set in a pseudo-Parisian housing structure in China — an actual ruin, since the elaborate and cheaply fabricated buildings were never finished and are now moldering uselessly — is a stunning metaphor of the ruins left behind by the mad rush of capitalism and is headlined «Ancient Paris, Catacombs, Demolitions, Decline of Paris.»
Out of this electroacoustic cloud, a woman's voice announces: «I am an emissary from the future...» The time travelling character from Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bathhouse (1930) invites those left behind by failed state capitalism and the neglect of free markets to join her in the commune of the future.
The basic insight behind market capitalism is one shared by brain scientists, computer programmers, ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and social change theorists, to wit: a large assemblage of dumb (limited information) actors will make, in the aggregate, better decisions than a small set of smart (high information) actors.
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