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I'm a working mother. . . You try to pay the bills, you try to keep your life going and there's pressure.

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As an economy measures performance in terms of the creation of money, people become a major source of inefficiency.

Creation, Economy, Money, People, Source
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It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

People, Interesting, Assets, Note, 200, Richest

Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

Build, Colonial, Ignored, Kings, Long, Luxury

Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity - which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.

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There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change.

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Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Choices, Free, Hands, People, Reasonably, Way
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