“The consumer is getting fed up with shoddy material, poor quality, unsafe products, bad service, weak warranties, lack of adequate information -- the whole gamut of such problems.” WholeProblemPoorQualityInformationMaterialsProductsWeakConsumersFedsAdequateFed UpUnsafePoor QualityWarrantyBad Service Author:Virginia Knauer
“Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma.” PeopleIfsHappensCareCertainLevelsPayPovertyProductsPaidDepressingAdequateDilemma Author:Wendell Berry
“There is no reason products and services could not be swapped directly by consumers and producers through a system of direct exchange – essentially a massive barter economy. All it requires is some commonly used unit of account and adequate computing power to make sure all transactions could be settled immediately. People would pay each other electronically, without the payment being routed through anything that we would currently recognize as a bank. Central banks in their present form would no longer exist – nor would money.” PeopleReasonFormUsedPayEconomyProductsDirectAccountsProducersConsumersNo ReasonMassiveUnitsAdequatePaymentTransactionsComputingCentral Banks Author:Mervyn King