The System is Working Perfectly Quotes

“Anybody who has ever planted an apple tree knows that you cannot extract resources indefinitely. An apple tree only grows a certain number of apples every year. You can maximize your harvest by treating the plant better and giving it more fertilizer, but it will never become an infinite apple tree. Most other natural resources work the same way and, at the moment, we are running out of all of them.”
― Tom Suberg, The System is Working Perfectly: Just Not For You

“The cake can always get bigger because the cake is imaginary. We can always make more money because money is just an accounting system.”
― Tom Suberg, The System is Working Perfectly: Just Not For You

“The borders might be different, the colonizers might have different flags, but the fundamental relationship remains the same. Resources and profits flow out, costs and damages stay inside.”
― Tom Suberg, The System is Working Perfectly: Just Not For You

“You wake up, check your phone. You see news and social media content designed to outrage you. Throughout the day, notifications pull your attention. Evening comes, you're mentally drained, you open your phone to relax, and the cycle continues. You never actually rest because you're never actually disconnected.”
― Tom Suberg, The System is Working Perfectly: Just Not For You

“When housing becomes an investment product, the purpose flips. Good housing from a human perspective means affordable, well-maintained, and stable. Good housing from an investment perspective means expensive, growing in value, and with minimized maintenance costs. These goals are directly opposed to each other.”
― Tom Suberg, The System is Working Perfectly: Just Not For You