They sense that there's a majority out there and that the emotions are all on the other side-if they can be heard. They think the politicians are going to yield to the emotions. I think the corporations are wrong about that. I think the companies will have to give in only at insignificant levels. Because the companies are too strong, they're the establishment. The environmentalists are going to have to be like the mob in the square in Romania before they prevail.
Louis O. KelsoMost of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.
Louis O. KelsoThe path the capitalist revolution will take faces in exactly the opposite direction from that taken by the communist revolution. It seeks to diffuse the private ownership of capital instead of abolishing it entirely. It seeks to make all men capitalists instead of preventing anyone from being a capitalist by making the State the only capitalist.
Louis O. KelsoThe rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.
Louis O. Kelso