It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
David KortenAn active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess is the cause our distress, and economic globalization is both a historical inevitability and a boon to the human species.
David KortenAs an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.
David KortenThe proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.
David Korten