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There is no law that says we have to go to work every day and follow our employer’s orders. Legally there is nothing to prevent us from going to live in the wild like primitive people or from going into business for ourselves. But in practice there is very little wild country left, and there is room in the economy for only a limited number of small business owners.

— Theodore Kaczynski Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)

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Consistent failure to attain goals throughout life results in defeatism, low self-esteem or depression.

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The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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No matter how much energy is provided, the system always expands rapidly until it is using all available energy, and then it demands still more.

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The bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be.

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