The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-… - John Kenneth Galbraith

The process by which wants are now synthesized is a potential source of economic instability. Production and therewith employment and social security are dependent on an inherently unstable process of consumer debt creation. This may one day falter.

Nothing so effectively economizes effort and intelligence, as distinct from anxiety, as the knowledge that nothing can be done.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.