Douglas Rushkoff Quotes About Economy

Quotes about: Economy

• Time has always been used against us on a certain level. The invention of the clock made us accountable to the employer, gave us a standard measure and stopwatch management, and it also led to the requirement of interest-bearing currency to grow over time, the requirement of the expansion of our economy.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Expansion, Levels, Requirements

  FaceBook post by Douglas Rushkoff from Aug 23, 2013

• Most Internet business theorists are really looking at preserving the necks of giant, Fortune 500 companies, rather than promoting the digital, peer-to-peer economy that actually wants to happen.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Giants, Peers, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

• We do not live in an economy, we live in a Ponzi scheme.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Economy, Ponzi Scheme, Schemes

• We're living in an economy where productivity is no longer the goal, employment is. That's because, on a very fundamental level, we have pretty much everything we need. America is productive enough that it could probably shelter, feed, educate, and even provide health care for its entire population with just a fraction of us actually working ... Our problem is not that we don't have enough stuff-it's that we don't have enough ways for people to work and prove that they deserve this stuff.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  America, Goal, People

  "Are jobs obsolete?". www.cnn.com. September 7, 2011.

• Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Children, Decision, Marketing

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