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Capitalist first,
later a philanthropist,
Jon had reversals
poem by Morgan Michaels
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The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
quote by C.L.R. James
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Your Boom, My Bust
So the he said
'Tell me capitalist
what is profit? '
He said
profit is what I earn
when I sell something for more than it is worth,
it is a reward for my effort.'
Ah, I said, if everyone did that
then the price of an object would
keep going up forever
since each person in the chain
would want their profft
and finally, the price would be so high
nobody could afford to buy
what the capitalist had to sell
and then we would all be in poverty
the last capitalist
would be the only one left with money
enough to buy up our properties
since the price would have dropped
because nobody could afford to pay
and in the end
the richest capitalist
would be the only one standing
and would own everything
while everyone else would have to sell everything to him
because all of the rest of us would be too poor
to pay the high prices its costs to live.
Sell something for more than it is really worth
on the grounds that a profit must be made
leads to disasters, and boom and bust.
Hello Wall Street.
And by the way
if everyone loses everything
who had the money to buy
it all up?
Hello Wall Street.
poem by Lonnie Hicks
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The concept of a "billionaire philanthropist" is an oxymoron. If somebody has amassed a billion dollars of net worth, that person likely did so by overcharging for products or services either through monopolistic or oligopoly power in the marketplace. It would be much more impressive to see the "billionaire philanthropist" drastically cut prices for the benefit of mankind rather than merely handing over 10%-20% of personal net worth for purposes of obtaining a tax break long after having gouged the consumer.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
A Capitalist, a Socialist and a Poet
A Capitalist, a Socialist and a Poet
Capitalist: What profit's there to be made?
Socialist: And how the workers will get paid?
Poet: Forget potatoes and your stocks,
The beauty's in the shining locks
Of my sweet darling-there she is-
An angel gliding through the breeze.
Capitalist: That's fine and dandy. What's the price
Of that sweet bosom and those eyes?
What is the bottom line, my friend?
Socialist: This dreamy nonsense has to end-
With millions walking unemployed,
What beauty's there to enjoy?
Poet: And in the starlight late at night
I see my lady burning bright,
And that is all I really need-
No public good or private greed-
I want my freedom just to be
Away from life's banality.
Capitalist: Good luck, my friend, but then again
You could've been a richer man.
Socialist: And while your comrades starve and hurt,
All you can think of is some flirt,
Who steals men's wallets and their hearts,
While you pursue your foolish art.
Poet: Foolish or not, and who decides
What to extol or to deride,
What we imagine, what we seem,
What we aspire to and dream?
And do we know who we are
Beyond some house or a car,
Beyond our jobs, beyond this life
That starts at nine and ends at five?
Capitalist: You could, my friend, be self-employed.
Socialist: Or one of many unemployed.
Poet: I find my meaning in my art,
While beauty lies within the heart
And shared equally with all,
Igniting passion in the soul,
Beyond appearances and lies,
Beyond demand, beyond supply,
Beyond your wealth or state control-
Mine is the freedom of the soul
To love and dream and to behold
The beauty of the natural world.
Not to despise, and not to claim
To have some answers to your game
Of rich and poor - it's all the same -
I want to live before I die
My life - not someone else's lies.
October 2,2009
poem by Alexander Shaumyan
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Who is a philanthropist?
I robed thousand men, no one knows.
I fed hundred men, each one knows.
I am a philanthropist.
31.12.2007
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Hypocrisy
She feigns a philanthropist
and hypes her lending hands.
Eating before dawn
daring to fast for some public cause.
poem by Rajendran Muthiah
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Philanthropists
A philanthropist is the one
Who sweeps the mass and heaps the wealth,
And sprinkles it among the poor
To wipe the guilt and earn a virtue
20.09.2008
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.
quote by Roger Bannister
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Scorn Them
She bribed for a title
With which she flourished
He funded a function
Where in he was honoured
The fraudulent means put one
As a philanthropist
To discourage such acts
One must view them with contempt
poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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Fascism is nothing but capitalist reaction.
quote by Leon Trotsky
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I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.
quote by Frank Lloyd Wright
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I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'.
quote by Ronald Reagan
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Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.
quote by Sylvester Stallone
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The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
quote by Vladimir Lenin
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Actors were exploited no less by the capitalist managers than they were by the state.
quote by Bela Lugosi
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Not every problem someone has with his girlfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production.
quote by Herbert Marcuse
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Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.
quote by Joseph A. Schumpeter
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But thanks to my invention, my capitalist friends and I were able to bring the government to its knees.
quote by Erno Rubik
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