Tony Judt Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.

  Tony Judt

  Home, Average, People

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

• As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

  Tony Judt

  Government, Ideas, Wealth

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.29, Penguin

• We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.

  Tony Judt

  Opportunity, Talking, Needs

  "Tony Judt: 'I am not pessimistic in the very long run'". Interview With Stephen Foley, www.independent.co.uk. March 24, 2010.

• How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

  Tony Judt

  Generations, Wealth, Obsessed

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin

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