The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance. . .
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Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not.Raoul Vaneigem
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life.
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power.
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To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects.
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In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption.
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