This erosion of the middle class is happening all over the place. The opening of a wider gap between rich and poor is always accompanied by such a process.

We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.

Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.

The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.

Now we are flying off into outer space, there is no clear curb on what can be done in the name of the economy.

I think the market is always going to be around. The goal is not to say, let's get rid of the market, because the market does render a huge number of services, and I don't want to have a fight about the price of something every time I buy a book or a bottle of water.

The real fight is about what should be in the marketplace and what should not. Should education be a marketable commodity? Should healthcare?