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somebody is winning and somebody else is losing | A Noteworthy Year
by noteworthy at 9:08 am EST, Jan 1, 2015

Molly Crabapple:

Winning does not scale. Don't pretend that everyone can win.

Joseph Stiglitz:

Just because somebody is winning and somebody else is losing doesn't mean that society as a whole is benefiting in any way.

Peter Thiel:

Google makes so much money that it is now worth three times more than every U.S. airline combined.

Federal Reserve:

Inflation-adjusted earnings of the bottom 90 percent of Americans fell between 2010 and 2013, with those near the bottom dropping the most. Meanwhile, incomes in the top decile rose.