The societies that work build an infrastructure of care_x000D_ as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.
Interpretation
A balanced society nurtures both economic growth and the well-being of its citizens.
Anne-Marie Slaughter emphasizes that for societies to be truly effective, they must invest in two key infrastructures: one that supports economic capitalism and another that fosters care and support for individuals. This dual focus allows people to thrive both economically and emotionally, creating a healthier, more resilient society.
In practice
In a speech about community development, you could reference this quote to highlight the importance of caring for citizens while promoting economic growth.
Iβd been part, albeit unwillingly, of making millions of women feel that they are to blame if they cannot manage to rise up the ladder as fast as men and also have a family and an active home life (and be thin and beautiful to boot).
Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women β¦ that will be a society that works for everyone.
This society cannot go forward, the way we have been going forward, where the gap between the rich and the poor keeps growing. It's not politically viable; it's not morally right; it's just not going to happen.
If you have someone who is paying 88 percent of her income on rent, and we have laws that allow a landlord to evict a tenant who falls behind under those circumstances, eviction becomes an inevitability.
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community, it is necessary to come up to a certain, somewhat indefinite, conventional standard of wealth.
Actually, the inability of any society to resist immigration, the inability to find other solutions to the problem of employment at the lower, more physical, and menial levels of the economic process, is a serious weakness, and possibly even a fatal one, in any national society. The fully healthy society would find ways to meet those needs out of its own resources.
The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male in America than Jay-Z does, by far. And that's not a diss to Jay-Z. The crime rate in the black community was high before hip hop. Rapping about it is just a reflection of the life a lot of people are living.
It's like, hmm, there's people with $2000 weaves that could have bought health care with that weave money. They don't have insurance. People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.
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