Sentences with phrase «concentrates wealth and power»

Since the economic system also concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands and excludes the majority from participation even in its material benefits, it generates enormous suffering.

The objection is that it transfers wealth from the public to the banks and it concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands.

«We have not witnessed such extreme levels of concentrated wealth and power since the first gilded age a century ago,» the report says.

In the Third World the results of development policies geared to the international market are more dramatic in their tendency to concentrate wealth and power.

In addition to concentrating wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands, the present system is impoverishing the Earth.

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As I describe in Survival +, there is a positive feedback in the process of concentrating wealth and thus political power: the more wealth one acquires, the more political influence one can purchase, which then enables the accumulation of even more wealth as the State / Elite partnership showers benefits and monopolies on those who fund elections, i.e. the wealthy.

It also concentrates power as well as wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

NGOs became «convinced that large - scale, top - down development concentrates wealth in fewer hands, transfers power to TNC's -LCB- transnational corporations], destroys traditional communities rather than developing them, disempowers the poor, and degrades the environment.»

And given more power to those who already have wealth is likely to tend to concentrate power over time.

Political power and material wealth are concentrated in the hands of the one per cent - they are those who set the rules and reap the benefits of these rules.

Indeed, like all forms of totalitarianism, power and wealth is concentrated in the hands of the ruling class, a revelation that becomes starkly evident when Katniss and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson)-- her district's male tribute — enter the Capitol.

But given the nature of the place in question — a place of great natural beauty, certainly, but a place, too, where, at certain times of the year, wealth, power and celebrity become notoriously concentrated — it is hard not to think about property: who has it, how they got it, what it's worth.

Wealth is extraordinarily concentrated worldwide, and one of the principal goals of wealthy families is exerting power and influence («impact»).