We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly. T.S. Eliot
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The quote above was written by the economist and philosopher John Maynard Keynes, who believed that man was not only a product of biology and physics but also a result of his social environment. He argued that we can never be happy as long as we depend on the whims of the economy and the mentality of profit. He believed that it is time for us to abandon such a mentality and move towards a more peace-loving, fair and cooperative society.

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