People are hungering for property — for a secure, permanent and independent link with spaceship earth that ownership represents and which only ownership can protect or defend. It is humiliating to possess nothing, to own nothing, and hence to produce nothing and to count for nothing.

Our present predicament comes from the fact that running the economy on blood is no longer fashionable. We can't end this depression with another war.

Most of us owe instead of own. And the less the economy needs our labor, the less able we are to "save" our way to capital ownership.

There is no future for those who cannot or will not think.

Two-factor economics makes it clear that our economic problem is not what one-factor (labor-centric) thinkers assert: an inequitable distribution of income. It is an inequitable distribution of productive power, from which an unworkable distribution of income results.

Thus, the capital owner is not a parasite or a rentier but a worker - a capital worker. A distinction between labor work and capital work suggests the lines along which we could develop economic institutions capable of dealing with increasingly capital-intensive production, as our present institutions cannot.

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.