Sentences with phrase «of wealthy societies»

The move is inspired partly by studies of wealthy societies that show when a country grows through a certain level of basic prosperity more money does not make people more content.

He was the fifth of six children of wealthy society doctor and financier Robert Darwin and Susannah Darwin (née Wedgwood).

Not exact matches

Rather than hoarding their money or creating family dynasties as many of their predecessors did, a growing number of wealthy Americans are pledging their fortunes to benefit society.

Like any of number of fictional futures, from Metropolis to Altered Carbon, it is a society where the wealthy in live in glistening towers in the clouds, surrounded by technologies of luxury and convenience, looking down on an underclass that can not afford basic necessities.

The idea of order was made more difficult by wealthy families asserting their economic interests at the expense of society at large.

Now it seems that the upper echelons of Latin American society have taken note as many wealthy families are now diving enthusiastically into Bitcoin.

The Giving Pledge is an effort to help address society's most pressing problems by inviting the world's wealthiest individuals and families to commit to giving more than half of their wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes either during their lives or after their deaths.

The abnormalities of atheistic beliefs are in today's timelines littering profusely many cherished religious societies whose fundamentalisms have been a social consistency for many good years... Even though I am distasteful of today's religions in that they are usurping the least wealthy, I see their mismanaging of financial dexterities due each religion's hierarchies needing more money for themselves than for their communal poor folks...

In the former, euergesia (to do good) was a practice of the wealthy, who contributed to the well - being of society.

Economists sometimes argue that when a society becomes sufficiently wealthy the benefits of increased wealth will trickle down to those who are now poor, but in the countries they cite as success stories, the improvement of the lot of the poor was greatly benefited by governmental action and labor unions, neither of which are viewed favorably from the point of view of the theory.

And then there was a different form of poverty: the «spiritual poverty of our time»; that poverty is most evident in wealthier societies and manifests itself in what Benedict XVI often called the «dictatorship of relativism»» the worship of the false god of me, myself, and I, imposed by state power, often in the name of a misguided and coercive concept of tolerance.

There are numerous examples in our society of people who were once poor becoming wealthy through creativity and hard work.

Historically the Churches have generally been rather on the side of the wealthy and powerful due to the common interests of the Churches and of the affluent in society.

Dr. Cobb examines wealth and how the wealthy gain control not only of the economy but also of society and government.

«Most wealthy congregations are only thinking of themselves and give little money to missions; meanwhile, international mission societies are curtailing their budgets for Japan.»

(Hat tip: Notes on the Culture Wars and LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH) When it comes to secret societies of the wealthy and powerful elites bent on one - world government, I prefer The Pentavirate: So I Married An Axe Murderer (Colonel Sanders scene)....

The landowner knew very well that they were in that situation because the powerful in society, the wealthy and the influential, even the educated and the religious, had created this terrible situation where millions of people had no work.

I am not calling for cuts to government programs as of now — they are necessary for so many people's basic survival — but Mr. Beck does have a pertinent point: voting to tax someone else (typically wealthier than us) to provide assistance does not necessarily demonstrate a society that «cares» — much more caring is a society that willingly donates those funds to charities they have taken the time to research, and more caring still if the members of that society take the time to volunteer to administer that aid.

Even if everybody in America enjoyed excellent health care, decent housing, educational opportunities, and lots of consumer goodies, but the wealthy and powerful lived in gated communities and held the rest of us in disdain, we'd think our society sick rather than healthy.

A stratified society, with wealthy landowners at the top and slaves at the bottom and, in between, a mass of poor folk skirting precariously the edge of servitude for debt and in times of depression forced into it or compelled to sell sons or daughters to redeem the family's fortunes — such a picture is revealed by a careful reading of the records.

Coontz misstates the historical record to give the impression that marriage has typically not been a province of law and only became such in an effort to preserve the narrow interests of certain powerful sects of society: wealthy parents in requiring parental consent, Catholic authoritarians in proscribing divorce, and Southern racists in preventing miscegenation.

Free societies have an excellent system to compensate for a lack of charity on the part of their wealthy citizens — it is called TAXATION.

While Reno is correct that it is «unhealthy for our society when cultural power becomes too concentrated in just a few very wealthy institutions,» using the state's tax power to attack «institutional giganticism» in the name of «philanthropic subsidiarity» as he proposes would only open the way for government to control, and even destroy, such institutions.

The backlash against the private sector is hardly surprising: when financial institutions broke down following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2007, the costs fell not on wealthy financiers but society as a whole in an era when middle income households were suffering an unprecedented squeeze.

So at the level of public space the polity as an «imaginary institution» (to misuse Castoriadis) more or less disappeared, leaving «society» as a sort of pre-biotic soup in which all that really mattered was the number of wealthy good Samaritans per head of population, or something of that sort.

Another problem with high levels of economic inequality is that lots of resources have to be devoted to gatekeeping and guarding the wealth of the wealthy from those denied wealth, which isn't necessary to nearly the same degree in more egalitarian societies.

After all, they have been the winners of the Tories» relentless support for the wealthiest people in society.

The problems in rich societies such as most of those in Europe is not, heretical as this is to say, caused by these societies somehow not being wealthy enough (and therefore requiring more GDP growth, and the associated promotion and veneration of «wealth creators» and establishing ideological divisions within society between «shirkers and strivers» etc.).

You emphasise the way that Machiavelli thought that the wealthy of his time, primarily the nobility, were the greatest threat to a free society.

Surely, this analysis must purport to show how, contrary to all the evidence I've seen, equalising capital gains, equalising tax relief on pensions, closing various other loopholes and introducing a mansions tax will actually have a minimal impact on the incomes of the wealthiest on society?

«We are a wealthy society in Britain and if we're going to live within the limits of our planet then some people are going to have to get more and some people at the top are going to have to get less and that means that the economics and the environment go together.

It's important to note that the very wealthiest groups in society are much less likely to take part in surveys and so their wealth is under - reported and alternative sources of data need to be analysed, such as HMRC personal wealth statistics.

These are the markers of a civilised society, but they are under relentless attack from corporations and wealthy elites.

So presumably, the less wealthy, after being told what to spend their money on by «society» for all their working years, reach pensionable age fully moulded by a paternalistic government into financially responsible citizens who will commit a significant amount of their time to research where they want to invest their pensions, and subsequently enjoy «regular updates on how their pension fund was growing» — because of course, like house prices, pension funds can only rise in value.

He advised the wealthy in the society to make it mandatory upon themselves to always assist the poor and the needy in order to cushion the effect of the recession in their social and economic lives.

Asked whether very wealthy and mobile people would just take their money away, she said: «You have to be part of the society in which you live.

Asked whether very wealthy mobile people would just take their money away, she said: «You have to be part of the society in which you live.

The WFP shares my view of a society and an economy that works for everyone, not just the wealthy and well - connected.»

«The cultural lens through which the fishermen viewed this issue was of struggle in a post-slavery society, of the rich, predominantly white expatriates making a law that oppressed the poorest of the poor locals to benefit the wealthy.»

«Even if people think objectively and follow rules of statistical inference, richer and poorer people may be led, by the information available to them, to very different conclusions about how wealthy their fellow citizens are, on average, and how wealth is distributed across society.»

Social inequality refers to disparities in the distribution of economic assets and income as well as between the overall quality and luxury of each person's existence within a society, while economic inequality is caused by the unequal accumulation of wealth; social inequality exists because the lack of wealth in certain areas prohibits these people from obtaining the same housing, health care, etc. as the wealthy, in societies where access to these social goods depends on wealth.

In the past, it was associated with rich, developed countries or with wealthier sectors of society.

If only a few wealthy companies control how Americans communicate with each other, it will be harder for people to talk among ourselves about the kind of society we want to build.

- The class of society the website is made for: There are a few websites that specifically target older women that are wealthy.

They appreciate expensive gifts, exotic trips and meeting wealthy people regularly and establishing themselves in the upper class of society.The sugar baby is an individual who wants mentor - ship, help with financial expenses or general companionship with people in the upper echelon of the society.

This site is proud to be one of the pioneering dating sites for wealthy and known singles in the society.

However, for the wealthy and millionaires, mingling with the common opposite sexes do not come naturally because of their placement in the society and the places they frequent.

A gifted musician, Garfield rises from the slums to the upper echelons of society, thanks to the patronage of wealthy, alcoholic Crawford.

During this period, she often put her country - girl characterization on the back burner to portray elegant society dowagers, alternately browbeating their wealthy husbands or enjoying the high - priced attentions of oily gigolos.

That being said, they do justice to Mr. Sorkin's fine writing and directing as the film examines this almost hidden part of society that caters to the whims, addictions and games of extraordinarily wealthy and successful men.