Jeremy Rifkin Quotes About Wealth

Quotes about: Wealth

• A half century from now, our grandchildren are likely to look back at the era of mass employment in the market with the same sense of utter disbelief as we look upon slavery and serfdom in former times. The very idea that a human being's worth was measured almost exclusively by his or her productive output of goods and services and material wealth will seem primitive, even barbaric, and be regarded as a terrible loss of human value to our progeny living in a highly automated world where much of life is lived on the Collaborative Commons.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Loss, Grandchildren, Ideas

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.117, Palgrave Macmillan

• Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the primary rite of passage to a secure, autonomous existence.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Today, Wealth, Existence

  Jeremy Rifkin (1992). “Biosphere politics: a cultural odyssey from the middle ages to the new age”, HarperCollins

• Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Generations, Machines, Wealth

  Jeremy Rifkin (2011). “The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World”, p.269, Macmillan

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