“Le tourisme, se ramène fondamentalement au loisir d'aller voir ce qui est devenu banal.”
― The Society of the Spectacle
― The Society of the Spectacle
“Le spectacle est le mauvais rêve de la société moderne enchaînée, qui n'exprime finalement que son désir de dormir. Le spectacle est le gardien de ce sommeil.”
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“Indeed, the distribution of wealth is too important an issue to be left to economists, sociologists, historians, and philosophers.”
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“the decrease in the top marginal income tax rate led to an explosion of very high incomes, which then increased the political influence of the beneficiaries of the change in the tax laws, who had an interest in keeping top tax rates low or even decreasing them further and who could use their windfall to finance political parties, pressure groups, and think tanks.”
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
“When a country goes from a population of 3 million to a population of 300 million (to say nothing of the radical increase in territory owing to westward expansion in the nineteenth century), it is clearly no longer the same country.”
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
― Capital in the Twenty-First Century
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