Having enough to eat, being able to educate your children, have reasonably stable employment, and being able to live in a society which isn't collapsing around you-all of these things have been generally eroded.

There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.

Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.

I'm a radical reformist, because between where we are and where I want to go there's a great deal of work, and I won't see the end of this.

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

Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.