quotes for our times

[decrypt_era]

You know, I have stopped being able to think of things like
Americans and Indians and Chinese and Africans.
I don't know what those words mean any more.
Because in America, as in India and in China,
what has happened is that the elites of these countries
and the corporations that support their wealth
have seceded into outer space.
They live somewhere in the sky,
and they are their own country.

Arundhati Roy

Money is a new form of slavery,
and distinguishable from the old
simply by the fact that it is impersonal,
there is no human relation between master and slave.

Leo Tolstoy

There's always free cheddar in a mousetrap, baby.

Tom Waits, God's Away On Business

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