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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

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Not exclusively, but the bulk of our local economy should be covered by local currencies, which is more efficient than having global currencies which lose connection with reality in the markets, shops and communities of the people. ↗

— David Korten

#communities #connection #covered #currencies #economy

The first principle of the market economy is that it is comprised of many small buyers and sellers, which implies a substantial degree of equity. Another fundamental market principle is that costs are internalized in the producer's price. ↗

— David Korten

#buyers #comprised #costs #degree #economy

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#both #doubt #easily #everything #life

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#human #lies #noises #obvious #origins

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone. ↗

— Alfred Korzybski

#alone #between #found #linguistic #link

And really the purpose of art - for me, fiction - is to alert, to indicate to stop, to say: Make certain that when you rush through you will not miss the moment which you might have had, or might still have. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#art #certain #fiction #had #indicate

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#gatherings #life #loneliness #simultaneously #writer

Homelessness is a part of our American system. There should be nothing wrong with this condition as long as the individual is not sentenced to unnecessary suffering and punishment. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#condition #homelessness #individual #long #nothing

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

#collect #fine #fine art #human #human relationships