We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.Bernard Shaw
From the 1970s, there has been a significant change in the U.S. economy, as planners, private and state, shifted it toward financialization and the offshoring of production, driven in part by the declining rate of profit in domestic manufacturing.Noam Chomsky
What isn't for everybody shouldn't be for anybody: the world's opera houses are the reasons we have cardboard cities.Howard Jacobson