Sentences with phrase «driven by capitalism»

I live in New Zealand and like yours, it's a society driven by capitalism.

Intimacy requires trust and trust requires time and time is exactly what we don't have in a society driven by capitalism on steroids, turbo capitalism.

Not exact matches

As Marx foresaw, capitalism's inherent drive to maximize profits and market reach (what I call windfall exploitation) leads to boom - bust cycles of rapid growth in production and the subsequent bust caused by too much capacity and saturated markets.

Film - makers Lewis & Klein begin the movie by telling us that their visit to Argentina was driven by the desire to demonstrate something their political leanings demand they believe, namely that there are alternatives to global capitalism.

Playing into the tension between (growing) state capitalism and (historically dominant) free market is China's ongoing development of its own version of the Marshall Plan — displaying the world's only global economic strategy driven by a trillion - plus dollars of investment into international infrastructure.

«For anyone driven crazy by the faux warm and fuzzy PR of the so - called sharing economy Steven Hill's Raw Deal: How the «Uber Economy» and Runaway Capitalism Are Screwing American Workers should be required reading... Hill is an extremely well - informed skeptic who presents a satisfyingly blistering critique of high tech's disingenuous equating of sharing with profiteering... Hill includes two chapters listing potential solutions for the crises facing U.S. workers... Hill stresses the need for movement organizing to create a safety net strong enough to save the millions of workers currently being shafted in venture capital's brave new world.»

I coined the term «Creditism» to describe an economic system driven by credit creation and consumption, in contrast to Capitalism, which was driven by investment and savings.

The second is consumer capitalism, the intricate socio - economic system that taps the human drives of individual gain and greed, rewarding incentive and encouraging participation in the system by the prospect of increased consumption of pleasurable goods or services and access to otherwise restricted activities.

This is also why the theoretical Porcher talk that at times seems to assume we can «get beyond» liberalism and capitalism by subjecting them to radical analysis rightly drives Pomocons nuts.

By extension, capitalism is the reward system which drives people to spread the benefits of easier living to as many others as possible.

There was a brief period before the 1997 election when it looked like the idea of «stakeholder capitalism», which explicitly recognises the tension at the heart of profit - driven business enterprise and seeks to mitigate it by empowering employees and the community at large in the decisions of otherwise independent businesses, might form part of Labour Party policy.

It's a character driven study that doesn't necessarily rely on plot as much as it does on a single character's mental anguish, as his ethical and philosophical morals are threatened by the lures of capitalism.

Now it is living on borrowed time, after an anti-crony capitalism campaign driven by conservative groups.

Drawing from Marxist, feminist, and radical black theory, Hannah Black's works are driven by voiceovers and intertitles that illuminate fissures in history and evoke the feelings of alienation and vulnerability that are amplified by social media and the profit structures of capitalism.

I think it explains, indirectly at least, why capitalism and market driven systems need not be destroyed (as some here have maintained) because they are insufficient it some areas, but rather should be supplemented in those areas that capitalism or free private enterprise (a major part of individual freedoms) is not designed for or hasn't the wherewithal to handle (ala tragedy of the commons) by appropriate government intervention, rule making, or regulation..

Capitalism since its birth, as Paul Sweezy wrote in «Capitalism and the Environment,» has been «a juggernaut driven by the concentrated energy of individuals and small groups single - mindedly pursuing their own interests, checked only by their mutual competition, and controlled in the short run by the impersonal forces of the market and in the longer run, when the market fails, by devastating crises.»

So true... Fear of global warming has been great for academia and the Left from the beginning because it, «makes industry and capitalism look bad while affording endless visuals of animals and third - world humans suffering at the hands of wealthy Westerners,» as Van Dyke noticed, plus: «Best of all, being driven by junk - science that easily metamorphoses as required, it appeared to be endlessly self - sustaining.»

They extended the Malthusian idea that population would outgrow food supply and applied it to all resources with amplification by capitalism and fossil fuel driven economies.