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I think money is due for some sort of collapse. People are going to realize that money has a half-life, like radioactive elements.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

Relative to all the start-ups out there, getting a valuation of $1 billion is rarely accomplished.

From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.

Civilization has given us enormous successes: going to the moon, technology. But then this is the civilisation that took us to debt, environmental crisis, every single crisis. We need a civilization where we say goodbye to these things.

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

In the time of the sacred sites and the crashing of ecosystems and worlds, it may be worth not making a commodity out of all that is revered.

We have built a government so large and so expensive here in Washington that not even the richest economy in the history of mankind can afford it. That's how big it's gotten.