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“On the supply side a community may have a electricity company, a water company, a gas company, oil companies (gasoline), and waste stream companies (sewer, trash, recycle, compost). Each company is siloed and views their job as maintaining and operating a supply chain for an ever growing demand for their service. Some pay lip service to demand reduction at times but it is a ‘fox in the hen house’ situation.”—Michel Bauwens

“If Google’s knowledge about my personal quirks were for sale to prospective employers I would be unemployable and chances are you would too. Think about how many employers would refuse to hire a Green Party member. Now multiply that by 1000 traits. We are NOT ready for a transparent society. ”—Pangolin

“The libertopian anarcho-capitalist’s whole schtick essentially derives from his pretense that transactions are perfectly consensual and social orders sublimely peaceable even when they are stratified by unequal knowledge and misinformation and driven by what amount in the context of informal and precarious labor to permanent threats of force.”—Dale Carrico

“This is how we could describe global capitalism in a nutshell: all of your rights end where a landlord’s so-called ‘rights’ begin. The squatters had every moral reason to protect their homes from the state and its capitalist masters. I give them my full support.”—Τζούλια Ρήμπερ Πιτ

“Personally, I think the anti-government twits (did I just reveal my hand? Oops) have it all wrong. The biggest threat to civil liberty in this country is not the government. It’s private enterprise.”—Carolyn Ann

“The more you look for crime, the more you put crime into people’s minds. I stand by my opinion that ‘externalizing’ morality is a really bad idea. If you make it impossible to be bad, you also make it impossible to be good. When commiting a… crime becomes a matter of outwitting a camera, conscience is left out of the loop. This is social-insectville, people. If crime amounts to outwitting technology, why not try? I don’t want to be watched—and I don’t want to watch the watchers either. I want to watch Star Trek.”—Bill Goodwin

“Propaganda works. It really, really does.”—Michael Alan Miller

“Many books good, no books bad.”—Clarissa

“It’s helpful to understand that society penalizes people for doing what they enjoy, at least insofar as this fails to make other people money. With most of us already scraping by, greater penalties can add up to a decision to accept more of what you hate. You have to develop a strategy to get around this problem, one way or the other — and preferably before you are dead.”—J. R. Boyd

“I use Facebook not because I love Facebook (I certainly don’t), but because everyone else uses Facebook. I just joined Google+, and will use that instead of Facebook if enough other people use it. If enough people flock to yet another platform, I’ll use that instead. Meanwhile I love Diaspora in principle (I was an early Kickstarter backer, before they surpassed their initial $ goal), but I don’t use it, because not enough other people do. When it comes to social networks, I am a sheep.”—Sepp Hasslberger

“The notion that a price is ‘correct’, as long as no explicit threat has been issued or a cartel has been cooked up in a smoke-filled room, entirely ignores everything else which is at stake in the way that prices get set and judged.”—Will Davies

“What, somebody’s fortune wasn’t built on the backs of poor laborers, consumers, and taxpayers?”—Poor Richard

“[S]ubsidy is public money that supports private concern — otherwise it is not subsidy, but investment.”—@FreePublicTrans

“Calling a fetus at any stage of development from conception until birth an ‘unborn child’ is like calling every living person at any age from birth until death an ‘undead adult’.”—Jami Ward, paraphrasing George Carlin

“[Anarchism] opposes both the insidious growth of state power and the pernicious ethos of possessive individualism, which, together or separately, ultimately serve only the interests of the few at the expense of the rest.”—Stuart Christie, quoted in Liberation Frequency

“Meg Whitman could do more to end oppression in American than a hundred newfound feminist allies. So could Barack Obama. It’s about your relationship to the means of production and how you support yourself and if you’re even allowed to support yourself.”—Valerie Keefe

“Evidently, somebody thinks that someday there will be an endgame in the war on terrorism. But there will never be an endgame in the war on terrorism.”—John Mohawk

“True, liberal transparency is asymmetrical. As a citizen, I should know everything my government is doing on my behalf, and it should know nothing — beyond those things we have as citizens agreed to share with it — about what I am doing. Public means public, open and transparent, and private means as private as anyone wants to be. In a tyranny, it’s the other way round. The government is secret and private lives are open to government scrutiny.”—ejoftheweb

“Personally, I’d look to the open source community to respond with a Skype replacement.”—Carolyn Ann

“These days the words ‘freedom and equality’ are part of the vocabulary of each and every one of us. But make a few inquiries and ask: What is freedom? and you will be told ‘Freedom means freedom of opinion, freedom of the press, freedom of association and assembly, the freedom of secrecy of correspondence’. Ask: What is equality? and you will be told: ‘All citizens are equal before the law, with no difference between the high-born and the yokel.’ Now, such narrow definitions have nothing to do with true freedom, true equality.”—Ba Jin

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“The real gap is not between public and private sectors, but between the rich and poor.”—Phil Dickens

“It’s like naming our murder weapons after victims of our crimes: Apache, Tomahawk… It’s as if the Luftwaffe were to call its fighter planes ‘Jew’ and ‘Gypsy.’”—Noam Chomsky

“Anyone who truly thinks that the antithesis of capitalism and consumerism is statism is either highly misinformed or a part of the propaganda system.”—Julia Riber Pitt

“Suppose for the sake of argument that gifted classes have zero long-run benefit. Even so, what’s wrong with giving young nerds a classroom of their own to spare them thirteen years of boredom and peer abuse?”—Bryan Caplan

“It is not true that capitalism provides freedom. Your statement is total idealism. Real men have real material needs and so long as these needs require satisfaction for a continued life and existence, men have no choice in their need to work and eat and breath.”—Zeitgeist

“The way to freedom is how we get our food.”—White Indian

“While personal and voluntary austerity measures are empowering; forced austerity, whether it is public or personal, is debilitating.”—Tanzilla

“The threat of the streets keeps many in jobs that compromise conscience and safety. The job system is an unnecessary systemic and rather torturous device for social control.”—Jack Saturday

“The only actual purpose of this is to facilitate intelligence gather and machine translation toward that end. I’ll do what I can to create countermeasures.”—anonymous

“Economics, interesting [as] it is, never struck me as very scientific.”—Pandaemoni

“If the elite status cannot be commonly seen, then it must be imposed. Hence, institutional structures like royal families, aristocratic classes, and executive professional networks maintaining exclusive access to power.”—Jeremy Weiland