Susan George
Susan George
Susan Melody Georgeis an English film and television actress, film producer and Arabian horse breeder...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth26 July 1950
CountryUnited States of America
british-actress fair less means pay rooted
What is not fair now is that corporations pay less and less tax, which means that you and I pay more because we're rooted somewhere, they've got our address, right?
british-actress life markets outside taken
Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
profitable
What's immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
boy british-actress educate family girls might school valuable
It was always the girls who were not put in school because you try to educate the boy because he might be more valuable to the family in the future.
british-actress century
I have never subscribed to authoritarianism, and I think if the 21st century is going to be authoritarian then we're all done for.
running ideas trying
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.
acquisition mergers investment
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
want rich
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
cutting tree forests
If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more trees.
america wealth investment
Redistribution of wealth would require enormous amounts of investment. The only time an elite has accepted this has been during crises, such as in America in the 1930s under Roosevelt.
logic kind capitalism
Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.
powerful army tools
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
people consumption productions
There are a lot of people who don't contribute anything to consumption and production.
jobs community needs
What you need if you want jobs are small and medium sized enterprises, local initiatives, labour intensive work, community development, service providers and the like.