Aspiration, it seems, is in danger of becoming the preserve of the wealthy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We absolutely have to restrain concentrations of wealth in industry from spoiling the situation for everybody.
What's dangerous is the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few individuals.
As the rich consume more and more, they are clearly not going to want to downgrade their own status.
That seems to me the great American danger we're all in, that we'll bargain away the experience of being alive for the appearance of it.
The thing that I champion is sustainability. My terror is that suddenly we see it as a luxury, not an essential. That's a danger.
Rich people are afraid to die.
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
The unique danger today is the possibility that we may face longer-term stagnation as a consequence of relying too heavily on borrowed money.
Ordinarily, the feds piggyback on the S.E.C. in complicated financial cases, but history proves that breath-holding on that score is a dangerous endeavor.
There is a lot of growth taking place in capturing aspirational consumers and converting them to luxury as they evolve.