Andrew Keen Quotes

Technology produces a new division of haves and have nots.

Median compensation in America has been stagnant over 25 of the last 30 years, the only exceptions being the last 5 years of the 1990s.

Any system of economics is bankrupt if it sees either value or virtue in unemployment.

Most of our technology issues aren't partisan.

Technology is not going to be perceived by different classes of people in the same way.

A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the Internet is another significant expense. A child might borrow a book from a public library; but it is not possible to take a computer home.

Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.

Technology tools such as laptops are the kind of help that we need. A program that provides laptops for all youngsters would close a gap that most of us are not aware of, or will not admit to, which is a tremendous gap in the poor communities.

Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.

The combined Gross Domestic Product of forty-eight countries is less than the wealth of the three richest people in the world. Fifteen billionaires have assets greater than the total national income of Africa, south of the Sahara. Thirty-two people own more than the annual income of everyone who lives in South Asia.

Americans feel squeezed between prices that are rising and wages which are not.

It’s no surprise that a global economy creates a global class conflict…. All markets create classes and class conflicts.

Capitalism did not arise because capitalists stole the land and the workmen's tools, but because it was more efficient than feudalism. It will perish because it is not merely less efficient than socialism, but actually self-destructive.

It is the unvarying law that the wealth of the community will be in the hands of the few ...

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are united.

Our goal in life ought to be to extend this medium [the Internet] so that it is available to every man, woman and child in the country.

We oppose monopoly, the tendency of which is to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

As economic globalization brings more states into the global economy, … the first fruits of the process will often fall to those groups best positioned by history or culture to take advantage of the new opportunities for enrichment, deepening social cleavages rather than filling them in.

An economic failure becomes a radicalizing force only when an alternative exists

Capitalism, wisely managed, can probably be made more efficient for attaining economic ends than any alternative system yet in sight, but that in itself it is in many ways extremely objectionable

A world in which we can fully experience the benefits that a connected society brings remains out of reach. Vested interests all too often feel threatened by the modern world, and they are holding Scotland back. We want to change that.

The United States economy is like a poker game where the chips have become concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, and where the other fellows can stay in the game only by borrowing. When their credit runs out the game will stop.

Not all rural communities have affordable and reliable access to telecommunication networks. Rural incomes still lag behind urban incomes. Job creation and retention is hampered because of infrastructure deficiencies

Our revenue laws have operated in many ways to the unfair advantage of the few, and they have done little to prevent an unjust concentration of wealth and economic power.

Since 2009, 95 percent of all gains in the economy went to the top 1 percent. That didn’t leave very much for the rest of us.