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"We act against all evidence"

We are simply dramatically stupid. We act systematically against the evidence we have. We know everything that should not be done. There is nobody that does not know that. Particularly the big politicians know exactly what should not be done. Yet they do it. The more you have, the more greedy you become. And all this crisis is the product of greed. Greed is the dominant value today in the world. And as long as that persists, we are done.

The United States is the most dramatic example. I have gone as far as saying that the United States is an "underdeveloping nation," which is a new category. We have developed, underdeveloped, and developing. Now you have underdeveloping. And the United States is an example, in which the one percent of the Americans are doing better and better and better, and the 99 percent is going down, in all sorts of manifestations.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/9/22/chilean_economist_manfred_max_neef_us

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