“Usually when people talk about the trickle-down theory, it has to do with economics. The richer people at the top of a society become, supposedly, the more wealth there is to trickle down to the people below. It never really works out that way, of course, because if there are two things people at the top can’t stand, they have to be leakage and overflow.”
Kurt Vonnegut
more infosource: Hocus Pocus (New York: Putnam, 1997), 201–2
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category: economics, politics, poverty, wealth
medium: Fiction
via: Kevin Lippert“We are living longer, but thinking shorter.”
Mary Catherine Bateson
more infosource: “An Anthropologist’s Take on Homemaking,” by Penelope Green, The New York Times, August 25, 2010.
category: economics, life span, philosophy
medium: newspaper article
notes: Bateson's personal website here
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