"We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives."
― Peter Singer
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- "We need to recognise that what really matters isn’t buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment."
- "Without in any way minimising the economic and psychological blow that people experience when they lose their jobs, the unemployed in affluent countries still have a safety net, in the form of social security payments, and usually free healthcare and free education for their children. They also have sanitation and safe drinking water."
- "In the sense that you’re not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn’t isn’t unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts."
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- "Speculation is only a word covering the making of money out of the manipulation of prices, instead of supplying goods and services."― Henry Ford