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E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

consumerism

“If human vices such as greed and envy are systematically cultivated, the inevitable result is nothing less than a collapse of intelligence. A man driven by greed or envy loses the power of seeing things as they really are, of seeing things in their roundness and wholeness, and his very successes become failures”.

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful

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