In the US, most progressives start to se... by David Korten | We Heart Quotes

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In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.

- David Korten

Other quotes by David Korten

Experience Money World People

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.

- David Korten

Power People

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

- David Korten

People

It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.

- David Korten

Money

Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.

- David Korten

Economy

My claim is that we do not have a market economy, but a capitalist economy.

- David Korten

If there is to be a human future, we must bring ourselves into balanced relationship with one another and the Earth.

- David Korten

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