# Quote — Herbert I. Schiller, Living in the Number One Country

> Capitalism cannot be reduced to one or a few features, but it does possess one relationship, central to its existence and operation, that constitutes the essence of inequality and ineradicable instability: the wage-labor-capital connection that dwells at the heart of the system.

- Author: [Herbert I. Schiller](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller.md)
- Book: [Living in the Number One Country](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country.md)
- Page: 132
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herbert_Schiller#Living_In_The_Number_One_Country_(2000)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/capitalism-cannot-be-reduced

## More from this book

> The actions and inactions of hundreds of millions of people and nearly 200 states, will affect what kind of world emerges in the time ahead.

p. 67 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/the-actions-and.md)

> How well a posse policy will fare in a world with 3 billion people below the poverty line and nuclear warheads scattered around a dozen or more regions like melons in a field, is not easy to imagine.

p. 70 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/how-well-a-posse.md)

> The "cumulative effects" of unbridled commercialism, however difficult to assess, constitute one key to the impact of growing up in the core of the world's marketing system. Minimally, it suggests unpreparedness for, and lack of interest in, the world that exists outside the shopping mall.

p. 171 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/herbert-i-schiller/living-in-the-number-one-country/the-cumulative-effects.md)