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> [If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/if-allowed-to-continue-this-process-will-turn-the-united-states-into/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

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## More by Charles Ferguson

> [I thought I should try something relatively inexpensive, relatively contained, relatively small. I started working on a feature, a film I'd still like to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/i-thought-i-should-try-something-relatively-inexpensive-relatively/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/if-allowed-to-continue-this-process-will-turn-the-united-states-into/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [I'm actually all in favor of freeing the entrepreneurial spirit - but it turns out, interestingly, that you actually need very strict regulations to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/i-m-actually-all-in-favor-of-freeing-the-entrepreneurial-spirit-but/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [I sort of plunged into filmmaking. I decided I'd jump off the deep end, so I started thinking about what kind of a movie…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/i-sort-of-plunged-into-filmmaking-i-decided-i-d-jump-off-the-deep-end/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [It is no exaggeration to say that since the 1980s, much of the global financial sector has become criminalised, creating an industry culture that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/it-is-no-exaggeration-to-say-that-since-the-1980s-much-of-the-global/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [When the financial crisis arrived, it seemed to me that this was something I had to make a movie about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/when-the-financial-crisis-arrived-it-seemed-to-me-that-this-was/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/but-that-s-not-how-most-of-the-people-mentioned-in-this-book-became/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [I used to be a businessman and I enjoyed what I did and I thought that it was socially useful. I don't have anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/i-used-to-be-a-businessman-and-i-enjoyed-what-i-did-and-i-thought/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/i-d-been-a-film-maniac-since-i-was-very-young-by-the-time-i-was-eight/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [The real challenge is figuring out how the United States can regain control of its future from its new oligarchy and restore its position…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/the-real-challenge-is-figuring-out-how-the-united-states-can-regain/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [When the U.S. government is serious about doing something that's complicated and difficult, it can do it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/when-the-u-s-government-is-serious-about-doing-something-that-s/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [A very high fraction of America's economic problems come not from our difficulties with education or globalization or competition with the Chinese or whatever.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/a-very-high-fraction-of-america-s-economic-problems-come-not-from-our/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/forgive-me-i-must-start-by-pointing-out-that-three-years-after-our/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [Everyone knows, or has strongly suspected, that capital theory is difficult.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/everyone-knows-or-has-strongly-suspected-that-capital-theory-is/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

> [A fierce and sentimental addiction to forms makes us shudder at change. It is much easier to say that the system is all right-only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-ferguson/a-fierce-and-sentimental-addiction-to-forms-makes-us-shudder-at/)

[Charles Ferguson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-ferguson/)

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