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How can poverty be alleviated?
When nobody eats until everyone eats at the same time.
Things in this world are very roughly averaged; and although averaging is a useful, rapid way of dispatching business, it does undoubtedly waste a great deal which is too good for wasting.
The perpetual struggle for room and food.
Supply had been cut off and livestock were dying of thirst.
It is the rule in war, if our forces are ten to the enemy's one,
to surround him; if five to one, to attack him; if twice as numerous,
to divide our army into two.
Balance is balancing.
Inventories can be managed, but people must be led.
Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.
Who has excess and supplies the world? Only the one who follows the Way.
magic redistribution.
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
The supply of the milk of human kindness was short by several gallons
We must protect our limited resources for those who are truly in need and who are doing all they can to be self-sufficient.
Eliminate numerical quotas, including Management by Objectives.
Thou shalt not ration justice.
We legislate against forestalling and monopoly; we would have a common granary for the poor; but the selfishness which hoards thecorn for high prices, is the preventative of famine; and the law of self-preservation is surer policy than any legislation can be.
Stocking up" is what our robust Americans called it, laughing nervously, because profligate abundance automatically evokes its opposite, the unspoken specter of dearth.
Concentration is the key to economic results. No other principle of effectiveness is violated as constantly today as the basic principle of concentration ... Our motto seems to be, "Let's do a little bit of everything."
Half the world is starving n other half is trying 2 lose weight by spending thousands
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.
There's this big pie in show business, and you physically can't eat the whole pie. If you give everybody a slice of pie, you will still have more than enough. The real trick is not to try to get the whole pie, but to keep the biggest slice.
problem shared is a problem halved.
Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
When progress is in short supply bring a surplus of determination.
Slice and Dice, Slice and Dice
If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear
Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
The world is so complicated, tangled, and overloaded that to see into it with any clarity you must prune and prune. In
So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough.
What a fatal thing in pictures, books, or human lives, is a lack of proportion.
The hope has vanished that the problem of justly distributing goods can be sidetracked by creating an abundance of them. The cost of the minimum packages capable of satisfying modern tastes has skyrocketed, and what makes tastes modern is their obsolescense prior even to satisfaction.
When power is scarce, a little of it is tempting.
It is my passionate belief that we can all have better health care through rationing.
They that die by famine die by inches.
In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are still geared to an environment of lack. The result? Overwhelm - on an unprecedented scale.
It's amazing how little you need to keep starving people strung along.
Time is a resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand.
That which constitutes the cause of the economic poverty of our age is what the English call over-production (which means that a mass of things are made which are of no use to anybody, and with which nothing can be done).
The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence?
When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
Concentration breeds efficiency while division brings inefficiency, error, and tension.
There is only so much manpower and tax revenue that can be devoted to riot control, to social surveillance, to chasing fast youths down dark alleyways, to fire-hosing and pepper-spraying suspicious-looking gatherings.
The division of labour was limited by the extent of the market
We can choose to address the twin issues of population and consumption to rebalance the use of resources to a more egalitarian pattern of consumption.
If you can't feed a hundred people, feed just one.
The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.
Half the world is redoing its kitchens, the other half is starving.
How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to eat? The only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of the people is to make that man come back and bring back some of that grub that he ain't got no business with!
abundance proffered too soon led to lassitude and indolence, a wandering dissatisfaction.
What should be shrunken must first be stretched.
The product is the delivery of the largest number of people at the least cost.
The wastefulness of indiscriminate plunder impoverishes a country, while it adds nothing to the support of the army; policy, as well as humanity to the inhabitants, dictates that all levies should be made according to established rules, and under the charge of discreet and competent officers.
People are worried where additional supply will come from.
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.
Learn to sustain yourselves; lay up grain and flour, and save it against a day of scarcity.
Tragedy of the Commons: while each person can agree that all would benefit from common restraint, the incentives of the individuals are arrayed against that outcome.
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
Truth is the most precious thing. That's why we should ration it.
A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
people to become self-sufficient,
There is nothing more common than to find considerations of supply affecting the strategic lines of a campaign and a war.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this rule; the flesh is weak, and shrinks from the scissors; I groan in retrospect over the weak.
The primary factor is proportions.
There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.
The course of unbalanced budgets is the road to ruin
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
When there is enough to eat for eight, there is plenty for ten.
Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up ... Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.
Dividing meager resources across a host of medium term operational goals creates mediocrity on a broad scale.
It must be fundamentally wrong to reduce production of food and fiber while one-third of our population is still ill fed and ill clothed.
If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
Decisions are necessary as a result of limited resources in time, knowledge, capital, people.
Nature herself in times of great poverty or bad climatic conditions, as well as poor harvest, intervenes to restrict the increase of population of certain countries or races; this, to be sure, by a method as wise as it is ruthless.
Prune - prune businesses, products, activities, people. Do it annually.
Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.
The math is stark: cut the
The more one produces, the less one gets.
Now one person doing the job of one and a half. So as an employer I can get two people to do the work of three, and think about what that does for profits.
The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.
The reality is that we are all economists. We all deal with scarcity as we make choices and calculate how to ration various items and resources that we consume, produce and utilize.
When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie.
The Americans want a surplus stocked up to supply their every whim. And their appeals are much less requests, more demands. Indeed, the phrase might be more aptly put: Demand and Surplus.
Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.
For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.
In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.
Unlike the American President's chronic problem of finding ways to give away the country's permanent economic surplus, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's was the problem of rationing permanent scarcity.
Food, the southern offering on the altar of crisis.
The planet's resources are rare; we must consume more ethically and equitably.
In simple terms, I realised that food is the most fundamental need for a person. In difficult economic times, people's priorities change, and they might be willing to do something that secures for them the lowest possible weekly food bill.
The fool supply was controlled...
Balance lives in the present.
the daily diminishment is a low flame, a constant drip.
A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the lesser.
refuse what you do not need; reduce what you do need; reuse what you consume; recycle what you cannot refuse, reduce, or reuse; and rot (compost) the rest.
In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.
Where excess lies, usually someone had to give something up for the other to get it.
The greatest shortage in our society is an instinct to produce. To create solutions and hustle them out the door. To touch the humanity inside and connect to the humans in the marketplace.
Capitals are increased by parsimony, and diminished by prodigalityand misconduct. By what a frugal man annually saves he not onlyaffords maintenance to an additional number of productive hands?but?he establishes as it were a perpetual fund for the maintenance of an equal number in all times to come.