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"As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue."
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"When you do portraits professionally it's not a desire, it's for money."
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"It is only if the primary or only reason you do what you do is to make money that you will envy every random person who made or makes a lot of money (or money that exceeds what you made or make)."
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"If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty."
"Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy."
"My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages."
"Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people."
"It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest."
"The professional study of economics has become ideological brainwashing. It is a defense of the excesses of the capitalist system."
"The EU will face problems similar to the US: an increasing gap between the citizens and decision makers in Brussels and a perceived or even real lack of democracy."
"Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society."
"If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining."
"There is no visible sign that the current politicians in the US are willing to see the need for change."
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