One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to translate their own fantasies into reality instead of tasting what reality itself has to offer. — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
I doubt that we Americans can come to terms with our money neuroses without understanding the more florid pathology of the very rich for… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
It is a mistake - as so many over-centralized socialist societies have discovered - to try to eliminate money as an incentive. Money is one incentive among many, and has its place. But to put no limits on the impulse to accumulate money obsessively is as destructive as to place no limits on the impulse to commit violence. A viable… — Philip Slater Copy Share
Every time we buy something we deepen our emotional deprivation and hence our need to buy something. — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
A true community maximizes the potential of whatever human resources exist within it (by allowing for all possible combinations), while networks minimize such utilization,… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Motors make noise and that tells you about the feelings and attitudes that went into it. Something was more important than sensory pleasure - nobody would invent a chair or dish that smelled bad or that made horrible noises - why were motors invented noisy? How could they possibly be considered complete or successful inventions with this glaring defect? Unless,… — Philip Slater Copy Share
At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
One of the main reasons wealth makes people unhappy is that it gives them too much control over what they experience. They try to… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
Most of us would like to end our lives feeling both that we had a good time and that we left the world a… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
If we define pornography as any message from any communication medium that is intended to arouse sexual excitement, then it is clear that most… — Philip Slater Copy Share Image
