capitalism
Example Sentences
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“He loved his country, he loved capitalism, and he loved his family,” said David Bristow, his friend and former lawyer, now a U.S. magistrate judge in California.
“There’s a funny moment when you realize that as an activist: The off-ramp out of extreme poverty is, ugh, commerce, it’s entrepreneurial capitalism.”
“We will bury you from within,” he supposedly said, meaning that capitalism gradually would lose its luster as Americans grew accustomed to socialist policies spoon-fed to them in small bites.
From Washington Post
This is also, of course, the logic of capitalism at its most perverse, a way of jumbling Emerson’s directive to build our own worlds with society’s directive to build our own wealth.
From Los Angeles Times
As for savage capitalism, there are two steps.
From Salon
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