Matthieu Picard

“people with the most to lose from genuine social change have put themselves in charge of social change.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“increasing automation accompanied by social ruin. We must make the market serve humanity rather than have humanity continue to serve the market.”
― Andrew Yang, The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future

“In September 2019, actress Felicity Huffman was sentenced to fourteen days in jail for shelling out $15,000 to rig her daughter’s SAT scores so she could get into a top university. In 2011, Kelley Williams-Bolar, a single black mother living in public housing in Akron, Ohio, was charged with multiple felonies and sentenced to two five-year sentences for using her father’s address to enroll her daughters in a better public school. That same year, Tanya McDowell, a homeless black mother living in Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sentenced to five years in prison for enrolling her five-year-old son in a neighboring public school.”
― Robert B. Reich, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It

“In 1910 President Theodore Roosevelt, a rich Republican, said that “corporate funds” used “for political purposes” were “one of the principal sources of corruption” and had “tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.”
― Kurt Andersen, Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America