As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of species consciousness and function.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

We can have democracy and a prosperous, just, and sustainable human future. Or we can have corporate rule. We cannot have both.

The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.