Quotes of the Week: Karl Marx’s Dream Gets Realized by an American Entrepreneur

"Dear Marina,

The owners have agreed to increase Ted's monthly salary from $9,000 to $10,000 due to his increased cost of living." 

    From an e-mail exchange between a small company's CEO and her Chief Financial Officer

The Frustrated CFO's reaction:  What about other employees' with increased costs of living? 

"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." 

                                                                                Karl Marx

                              The Definition of the Principle of a Communist Society 

                                                         "Critique of the Gotha Program," 1875

"I hate to be a kicker I always long for peace,

But the wheel that does the squeaking is the one that gets the grease."

                                                       Josh Billings

                                                     (1818 – 1885)