Postmaterialist Proverbs

Beyond a basic economic foundation, consumption is optional.

Success is earning our economic foundation doing what we want to do, or earning that foundation in less and less time.

Success is more time to do what we want rather than more things.

Time is our greatest possession.

There is great freedom in not caring what other people think you should have.

Buy this! I don't think so. Buy this now! I think I'll wait. Buy! Buy! Buy! I'll decide what I really want and need.

Marketing can't be escaped, but it can be laughed at.

Question messages.

If manipulation does not work, marketers will resort to information.

Literalize marketing messages.

Shopping is problem solving.

Thrift is rebellion.

Efficiency for materials, carnival for cultures.

Growth areas for the futurist: efficient technologies, quality basics, enabling tools for the masses, non-material culture.

A liberal democratic market system must ultimately follow votes and demand.

There is no other place to go. Other systems always devolve to control by the few. And we can't trust the few.

No great revolution, many small revolutions. Not top down, bottom up. Not force, choice.

Change demand and the system will follow.

Assign the true total cost to products.

We need to give the machine something else to crank on.