Chris Hedges on Poverty, Incarceration and Social Inequality

„Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of ?,000 to ?,000 a year.“

Chris HedgesChris Hedges criticizes the economic exploitation of poverty, incarceration and social inequality.
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Chris Hedges is an American journalist, author, and professor known for his critical analyses of politics and society.

The quote criticizes the economic exploitation of poverty and incarceration and points to structural social inequality.


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Chris Hedges quote about poverty, incarceration, and social inequality

Chris Hedges is an American journalist, author, and academic. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for major media outlets including the New York Times and extensively addresses the effects of power, war, and media on society. Hedges is known for his sharp socio-political commentary and books such as "Empire of Illusion."

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"We have to grasp, as Marx and Adam Smith did, that corporations are not concerned with the common good. They exploit, pollute, impoverish, repress, kill, and lie to make money. They throw poor people out of homes, let the uninsured die, wage useless wars for profit, poison and pollute the ecosystem, slash social assistance programs, gut public education, trash the global economy, plunder the U.S. Treasury and crush all popular movements that seek justice for working men and women. They worship money and power." Chris Hedges
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"The media propagates a message that corporations want, and there’s a belittling and mocking of the poor and celebration of wealth. A kind of cutthroat, rapacious capitalism is celebrated on reality television shows where you betray and manipulate and push aside your competitors for fleeting fame and money. These are sick values, but they’re disseminated through corporate media in almost every program you watch." Chris Hedges
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"Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars." Upton Sinclair
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"The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through bureaucratic procedures.The only thing that is keeping you out of jail is government goodwill." Ayn Rand
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"The social welfare program is nothing more than an open-ended credit balance system which creates a false capital industry to give nonproductive people a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. This can be useful, however, because the recipients become state property in return for the “gift,” a standing army for the elite. For he who pays the piper picks the tune." Bill Cooper
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