“…How is it that nearly two hundred years after the birth of the Industrial Revolution, which produced humanity’s greatest period of economic expansion, the absolute number of those living in misery, both material and social, has grown exponentially?
How is it that the world’s slum population has developed at a rate vastly greater than that of global population growth?
And how is it that despite incredible technological innovations the world now faces man-made threats of quite different magnitude from the wars, famines, epidemics and other upheavals of previous dark ages? Goldsmith asked these questions in 1994. Little did he know things were about to get a lot worse when the psychopathy was allowed to run loose on Wall Street a few years later.”
Hartmann, Thom (2013-11-12). The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It (p. 103). Grand Central Publishing. Kindle Edition.