Status Updates From Capitalism: A Ghost Story

“I worried that a couple of the little red-cheeked children who looked so much like apples themselves might be crated by mistake.”

“Our lungs are gradually being depleted of oxygen. Perhaps it’s time to use whatever breath remains in our bodies to say: Open the bloody gates.”

“Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises—War and Shopping—simply will not work.”

“Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create a market for weapons?”

“However, the corporate or foundation-endowed NGOs are global finance’s way of buying into resistance movements, literally as shareholders buy shares in companies, and then try to control them from within.”

“He believed his money was given to him by God, which must have been nice for him.”

“The sanctity of private property never applies to the poor.”