nanocompendium

It is both greedy and irresponsible for American corporations to allow untaxed cash to pile up on their balance sheets while American infrastructure crumbles, public education suffers, the unemployed struggle to survive and shareholders lose their investments. It’s time for America’s “job creators” to do their job.

— Carl Gibson (via azspot)

It is very dangerous thing to think that a consumer-based economy is a permanent condition of life. Calling ourselves consumers is one of the most degrading things that we’ve been doing to ourselves for the last several decades. Consumers have no obligations, or duties or responsibilities to anythng else, except to their own desire to eat cheese doodles and pepsi-cola. And that is not enough to peg civilization on.

— The Great Squeeze (2009)

(Source: imdb.com)