Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

They can have their workhorses but have better fuel economy.

The number of targets is proliferating faster than the increase in the rate of joining all across the nonprofit economy. I'm convinced that if we look at the membership rolls of the associations that are complaining about membership, they're getting a lot of people rotating off and that's absolutely a function of competition.

I believe in status symbols.

If we don't buy a billion iPads, three-hundred million people will die of starvation. That's how the economy works.

We live in such a service-based, globalised economy where very few people actually make anything and the people who do make stuff... it's all part of a massive global supply chain. So what if all those chains were suddenly cut, how would you make something? How would you keep people alive? And that was something I wanted to explore.