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- Wealth is not generated from nothing — that is an illusion — it is generated from us and from the earth. Wine is not bottled from air; grapes have to be crushed first.
2. The great innovation of American capitalism was to convince workers to take pride in their status as wage-slaves; white or blue collar. The briefcase became a symbol of freedom and power instead of what it really is: a ball and chain.
3. Technology increases our productivity at the cost of our quality of life.
4. We don’t need need to shorten the working day, we need to make it more interesting; more edifying; more creative.
5. The heirloom seed is a greater invention than anything that will come out of university or corporate labs. The belief that science can catch up to nature is simply mysticism; obscurantism. Nature is six billion years ahead.
6. Much progress would come from going back to what has been lost.
7. Economics is the science of how money begets money. It is a form of virology.
8. Adam Smith: “capital is command over unpaid labor.”
