Susan George
Susan George
Susan Melody Georgeis an English film and television actress, film producer and Arabian horse breeder...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth26 July 1950
CountryUnited States of America
class erosion gaps
This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.
boy british-actress educate family girls might school valuable
It was always the girls who were not put in school because you try to educate the boy because he might be more valuable to the family in the future.
profitable
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
british-actress fair less means pay rooted
What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?
british-actress life markets outside taken
Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
british-actress century
I have never subscribed to authoritarianism, and I think if the 21st century is going to be authoritarian then we're all done for.
british-actress countries developed developing middle wait waiting
If we wait for the U.S. to do something, we will be waiting for a very long time. It's Europe, it's Australia, it's the other developed and middle developing countries that have got to do the job.
running ideas trying
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
acquisition mergers investment
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
want rich
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
party political movement
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
economy disaster ifs
If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.
cutting tree forests
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
america wealth investment
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.