Every increase of needs tends to increase one's independence on outside forces over which one cannont have control and therefore increases existential fear
E. F. SchumacherThere are three things healthy people most need to do - to be creatively productive, to render service, and to act in accordance with their moral impulses. In all three respects modern society frustrates most people most of the time.
E. F. SchumacherIf greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness?
E. F. Schumacher