Things today have become too big, too centralized, and too disassociated to be in relationship to each other.
Peter BuffettIt's no surprise that if you look at the development of the economy, of consumerism, of all these things that have gotten out of hand over the last hundred years, it happened when men were purposeless, when they didn't actually have a legitimate reason to be moving the species forward because the machines were doing all the hard work.
Peter BuffettTrue collaborative, nurturing, and safe power is a combining of forces that can only happen on a pretty small scale.
Peter BuffettSuddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.
Peter Buffett