Citizens Quote by Christopher Lasch

Give the individual the power to be a producer as well as a consumer.

— Pierre Omidyar

Amateur production, the result of all this new capability, means that the category of ‘consumer’ is now a temporary behavior rather than a permanent…

— Clay Shirky

Instead of investing in the goods as they pass between producer and consumer, as the merchant does, the businessman now invests in the processes…

— Thorstein Veblen

“Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same every day, in organizations where…

— Neal Stephenson

That appropriation of resources and the transformation of them into goods and services through the European production system characterized, and characterizes to this day,…

— Paul Hawken

One succeeds in obtaining an equivalent production at a lower price by improving the arts, trades and agriculture and by developing the physical and…

— Antoine Lavoisier

“At the industry level this process went, for example, from cotton, tobacco and wheat through railroads and automobiles, household appliances and electrical goods, to…

— Edward A. Hudson

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even…

— George Packer

Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into…

— Samora Machel

Thanks to globalization and the technology revolution, the nature of work, the distribution of the rewards from that work, and maybe even the economic…

— Chrystia Freeland

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you…

— Douglas Rushkoff

New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and error on…

— W. Edwards Deming