Hard-core structural poverty has a counterpart at the apex: hard-core structural affluence. Louis O. Kelso More Quotes by Louis O. Kelso More Quotes From Louis O. Kelso Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot. Louis O. Kelso linespoliticswisdom The sooner the world solves its economic problems, the sooner its inhabitants can afford leisure and peace and get on with the non-material things that are inherently important: the work of mind and spirit that is gloriously and uniquely human, the work that no machine can ever do. Louis O. Kelso importantwisdommind The way the system now works, credit is extended to those who don't need it and denied to those who are in desperate need of it. Louis O. Kelso creditwisdomneeds The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness. Louis O. Kelso amplifywisdomideas The one important distinction between the two factors of production is that in a free society, ownership of the human factor, labor, cannot be concentrated while ownership of the non-human factor, capital, can be. Louis O. Kelso importantwisdomtwo The 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. Kelso takenwisdommen The point is to make the pie grow faster and distribute the new growth more equitably. Louis O. Kelso piegrowthwisdom The poor lack money. They lack money because they do not know the secret of productive wealth. They know it is possible to be old, unemployed, uneducated, lazy - even halt, deaf, dumb, and blind-and still be excessively rich. But you have to be in on the secret, and the poor by definition are not. Louis O. Kelso dumbwisdomsecret The primary cause of disorder and lawlessness today, as throughout history, is the poverty of the many in contrast to the affluence of the few. But a new element of unrest has been added: a growing awareness that mass poverty is caused by defective institutions that prevent our harnessing the physical capabilities of science, engineering, management and labor to create general affluence; in other words, a growing awareness that poverty in any country that is or can be industrialized, is man's not nature's fault. Louis O. Kelso wisdommencountry The purpose of finance is to enable business to acquire the ownership of capital instruments before it has saved the funds to buy and pay for them. The logic used by business in investing is things that will pay for themselves is not today available to the 95% born without capital. Most 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. Kelso investingpoliticswisdom The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential. Louis O. Kelso politicstechnologywisdom The sole missing link is the recognition that the acquisition of capital ownership by the millions is an indispensable goal. That is the turning point - our recognition of the proper goal. Louis O. Kelso goalwisdommissing The totalitarian toil-state originates in the propertylessness of the majority. Louis O. Kelso toilmajoritywisdom The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce. Louis O. Kelso principleswisdomfirsts Socialism has been discredited. Plutocracy is in the process of being discredited. Democratic capitalism has yet to be tried. Louis O. Kelso
