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The super rich dont' give a sh*t about democracy because they can capture power using money rather than using rights.

“I believe that when somebody unwrapped that box and took out that cable and thought, “somebody gave a shit about me” that’s a spiritual thing.  

Ideas have to cause problems before they cause solutions.

Work is service, not gain. The object of work is life, not income. The reward of production is plenty, not private fortune. We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books.

For a business to be truly customer-focused, it needs to ignore what people say. Instead it needs to concentrate on what people feel.

…how many things which are good when small get better by becoming bigger? That local restaurant you love can’t scale to millions of users. Do you really want your favourite indie band to aspire to stadium-level fame? People get cheaper books, and an independent bookseller closes its doors to make way for a giant warehouse full of underpaid people working ten-hour shifts. You order your groceries online, but you’ll never bump into your neighbours at the local shop. Is this progress?