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Paul  Mason
“At the ratings agency Standard & Poor’s, where they’ve knowingly mispriced risk, one guy messages another: ‘Let’s hope we are all wealthy and retired by the time this house of cards falters,’ adding the emoticon ‘:O)’.”
Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

Paul  Mason
“But why, if the real weekly value of my labour is thirty hours of other people’s work, would I ever work sixty hours?”
Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

Wilkie Collins
“The best men are not consistent in good—why should the worst men be consistent in evil?”
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

Russell Brand
“Imagine if we had locally supported, collectively organized agriculture, where our apples were grown in--I dunno--Kent, and if you lived in Kent you could buy and eat those apples in Kent. And then someone turned up and said "I've got a better idea! Let me take over yourr orchard and all orchards like it, fly their produce around the globe to be spruced up and then we'll give em back to ya! Sound like a plan?" We'd tell em to fuck off, wouldn't we? Well it has happened, and we didn't because nobody explained it to us. The reason they don't explain this to us is that they know if we find out the extraordinary lengths that they're going to to fuck us over we will overthrow the current system and replace it with something fair. That is why all this important stuff is made to seem inaccessible, boring, and abstract. That is why our participation in politics has been sanded down into an impotent nub: Stick your X into this box and congratulate yourself on being free.”
Russell Brand, Revolution

Paul  Mason
“With info-capitalism, a monopoly is not just some clever tactic to maximize profit. It is the only way an industry can run.”
Paul Mason, Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

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