"What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau #quotes #philosophy #wisdom #universal #global #kindness #matters

The top three richest on Earth as of February 2022 are Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, and LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton chairman Bernard Arnault. investopedia.com/articles/insig…

"The wealthy and corporations—including Wall Street—not paying their fair share of means that hardworking Americans and small businesses have had to pick up the slack. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has continued to shine a light on the need" #covid19 citizen.org/article/new-gi…

"If a person, who doesn’t have a car, doesn’t live in a great place, doesn’t need any protection, why is he paying some extra taxes? To enjoy such benefits by the government of the United States of America, the wealthy should pay more taxes." #taxes #rich factsontaxes.com/why-should-wea…

"According to the Federal Reserve’s latest Survey of Consumer Finances, taken in 2019, the median net worth of U.S. households was $121,700.11 Thus, a trillionaire would have wealth equal to 8.2 million times that of the typical American family." #wealth investopedia.com/trillionaire-5…

"It seems wrong in a society as wealthy as ours that a person working full-time can't get above the poverty line." — Peter Van Buren #quote #economy #wage #society #wealthy #poverty

"The COVID pandemic in 2020 shows us how much the world has changed. In today’s positive-sum economy your own economic well-being depends on the well-being of others and it is in your own self-interest that others are healthy and well." — Max Roser #quotesaboutlife #covid19

"We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because he must justify his right to exist." — Buckminster Fuller #quotesoftheday #invention #jobs #ideas #justifications #existence #relevance #quotes

"Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural it is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings." —Nelson Mandela #quote #slavery #apartheid #poverty #manmade #abolish

"Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in." —Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. #quotesoftheday #EqualRights #equality #civilrights #evolve #achieve #serve #justice

"Basic income would give people the most important freedom: the freedom of deciding for themselves what they want to do with their lives." —Rutger Bregman, Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World #book #recommend #basicincome #goodreads #UBI #povertyreduction

”Progress is the realization of Utopias.” —Oscar Wilde #quote #progress #utopia #humanity #basicincome #UBI #EndPoverty

"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing." —George Orwell #quotes #power #mindsets #ubiquity #govern #apparatus #humanity

"The best books... are those that tell you what you know already." #books #distopia #goodreads #truism #studentsuccess goodreads.com/book/show/4096… via Goodreads

"Race Persists because it continues to be politically useful." “Reviewing the history of official racial classifications reminds us that these categories are not natural – and neither are the institutional inequities that race undergirds.” — Dorothy Roberts #quotesoftheday

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." — Franklin Roosevelt #quote #progress #duty #compassion #uplift #humanity #poverty #homelessness #BasicIncome #UBI

"We have come dangerously close to accepting the homeless situation as a problem that we just can't solve." — Linda Lingle #quotes #homeless #lowincome #poverty #family #BasicIncome #helping #humanity #progress #community #achieve #affordablehousing #education #healthcare

"Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers." — Howard Thurman #timeless #quotestoliveby #community #wisdom #books #vision #compassion #love #virtues #faults #peace #opportunity

“If we don’t support people who have lost their jobs, then they can’t pay their bills, and then it ripples through the economy, and the downturn is much worse than it needs to be,” — Neel Kashkari #quote #economy #hardship #poverty #homelessness #basicincome #ubi #progress