Charles Stross Quote

Savers have to be punished so debtors can be saved.Why? Because if debtors are rescued, that makes it possible for more debts to be issued in the future.And why is that important? Because the banking...

There is coming a day, when freedom will just be a essence of the mind, an inner dwelling that was once physically attainable. They will tell you where you can live, and what you can wear and drive, w...

If your expenditure brings you poverty, then you may call yourself a poor but the world will call you a fool.

When water fountains start charging to drink, then you know we have a problem.

The bankers and financiers are badly overplaying their hands, again, and people are starting to catch on to the scam.Real wealth is tangible things produced with tangible effort. Loans made out of thi...

They're so broke that they've actually cut essential services. In many places, they've cut policemen, because, who the fuck needs them? Or firemen, son of a bitch, it's much more fun watching somethin...

There's very little authentic study of the humanities remaining. My research assistant came to me two years ago saying she'd been in a seminar in which the teacher spent two hours saying that Walt Whi...

Those who benefit from unearned privilege are too often quick to discount those who don't.

The way of the consumerist culture is to spend so much energy chasing happiness that it has none left to be happy.

[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.