Anyone Who Thinks Consumption Can Expand Forever

Why Precisely Do We Want To Change Land Ownership? The Answer Seems To Me To Be Quite Clear: To Inhibit Land Speculation, To Inhibit The Private Exploitation Of The Scarcity-value Of Land, To Inhibit As We Might Say The Cornering Of Land.

The Substance Of Man Cannot Be Measured By Gross National Product.

From The Point Of View Of The Employer, It Is In Any Case Simply An Item Of Cost, To Be Reduced To A Minimum If It Cannot Be Eliminated Altogether, Say, By Automation. From The Point Of View Of The Workman, It Is A "disutility"; To Work Is To Make A Sacrifice Of One's Leisure And Comfort, And Wages Are A Kind Of Compensation For The Sacrifice.

Nobody Really Likes Large-scale Organizations; Nobody Likes To Take Orders From A Superior Who Takes Orders From A Superior Who Takes Orders.

No Degree Of Prosperity Could Justify The Accumulation Of Large Amounts Of Highly Toxic Substances Which Nobody Knows How To Make Safe And Which Remain An Incalculable Danger To The Whole Of Creation For Historical Or Even Geological Ages. To Do Such A Thing Is A Transgression Against Life Itself, A Transgression Infinitely More Serious Than Any Crime Perpetrated By Man. The Idea That A Civilization Could Sustain Itself On Such A Transgression Is An Ethical, Spiritual, And Metaphysical Monstrosity. It Means Conducting The Economical Affairs Of Man As If People Did Not Matter At All.