Talking sense

When the activities of government are just as transparent to the people as the activities of the people are to the government, then we will have a truly open society
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Many of us are tired of the modern world with its, violence, alienation, poverty and deadness.
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Economic degrowth is now the only way forward to a fairer more socially pleasant world.
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The scarcity of time is one reason we over consume,, attempting to compensate for the loss this most primal of all wealth
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Time is life.
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To be truly rich is to have sovereignty over our own time.
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Certainly no person has more right to than any other to benefit from, say , the inventions of Robert Boyle or Thomas Edison, much less the vast cultural context that made their work possible
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When commercial applications guide science, we end up not with science but with countrfeit pseudo science in service of profit.
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Shift taxation onto property and resources, sales and income taxes will be reduced or eliminated.
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Today, pollution and other forms of environmental degradation generate costs that are usually born by society and future generations.
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But ultimately every form of pollution and depletion should be subject to payment.
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With economic disincentives for cheap throwaway goods, manufactured items will become more expensive more durable and more repairable.
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These measures shift taxes away from income and onto resources so that we are taxed not on what we contribute but on what we take.
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Internalisation of costs will remove many illusory economies of scale that favour long distance transport.
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While the elimination of economic rents will ameliorate the obscene wage differentials that now exist between rich and poor countries.
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The natural wealth of the earth, which was made by no man.
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The current economic system essentially forces us to work for what is already ours.
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Charles Eisenstein