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“No airbags, no electronics, no worries. Almost. Before laughing at my car, start with finishing to pay the credit of yours!”
Now that we caught your attention note that: Every minute French public debt interests equals 89 000€. This is almost 47 billion euros each year, out of a total debt of 1 818 000 000 000€ (1 818 billion euros). Read more about art. 123 of the Lisbon Treaty: http://tiny.cc/Art123Lisbon
Once, I’ve been asked: “You are a wise man, why aren’t you rich?” I replied: “You are a rich man, why aren’t you wise?”
“This bulb is switched on for more than 100 years. It was built before planned obsolescence. It survived several webcams. Welcome to the asburd world of profit.”
“Control oil and you will control nations. Control food and you will control people. Control money and you will control the world”
“To send your donations to Goldman Sachs, go to http://www.taxes.gov”
“By essence, the ex nihilo money creation that banks practice is similar to money creation by counterfeiters that are rightfully repressed by law. Concretely, it leads to the same results. The only difference is that those who benefit from it are different.”
“Modern civilization is the most fragile of all human history. No more electricity, no more oil, no more telecommunications, and the whole civilization collapses. It is based on nothing at all. Progress doesn’t bring freedom. Some progress has brung a relative well being. But this wellness is not necessarily shared. Humanity has to ask itself: “Progress, to do what?” And before that: “What is living?”. If it is to consume, I don’t call this living, this is totally useless. We have become hordes of shopping cart pushers. This is terrifying to me. We came back to neolithic, we are gatherers, we pass by shelves and pick. This is not good. We spoke about degrowth which is considered as an abomination nowadays: questioning growth! In Middle-Eve I would have been burnt right away!”
Behind an apparent variety of choices, our money as consumers goes to only a few companies. Information is key.
“Whoever thinks exponential growth can continue endlessly in a finite world is either a fool or an economist”
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