John McAfee Quotes

Somewhere along the way to free-market capitalism, the United States became the most wasteful society on the planet.

We're loving something to death in a way, which Americans tend to do a lot.

Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

Superdevelopment leads to a throwaway society and to enormous waste. Excessive access to all kinds of things,—sometimes called consumerism—enslaves people and does not make them happy.

We, all of us in the First World, have participated in something of a binge, a half century of unbelievable prosperity and ease. We may have had some intuition that it was a binge and the earth couldn't support it, but aside from the easy things (biodegradable detergent, slightly smaller cars) we didn't do much. We didn't turn our lives around to prevent it. Our sadness is almost an aesthetic response - appropriate because we have marred a great, mad, profligate work of art, taken a hammer to the most perfectly proportioned of sculptures.

It seems that every time mankind is given a lot of energy, we go out and wreck something with it.

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.

The more we take the less we become, the fortune of one man means less for some.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Well, capitalism is a big problem, because with capitalism you're just going to keep buying and selling things until there's nothing else to buy and sell, which means gobbling up the planet.

Fashion is fun, ridiculously fun. But it's base and it's wrong. You're not doing anything good for the world. You're just saying, 'Buy it, buy it, buy it.'

If the rest of the world aspires to our way of life ... we'll bury ourselves in waste.

Ours is a plundering generation.

It pains to see that some investors are importing raw commodities, although just on their door steps, similar produces are left to decay.

We live in a society that, for the most part, is morally and spiritually bankrupt. Our culture is a culture of consumerism. How sustainable is that?

Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.

The computer is a mechanism for acceleration: it accelerates economic activity, and this is eating up the world. It's eating up resources, it's processing, it's manufacturing, it's distributing, it's consuming. That's what the computer's real work does, and it does that 24/7, 365 days a year, non-stop, just to satisfy our own narrow needs.

Amplifying body-image issues, profiting from anxiety, and employing virtual slaves in sweatshops are bad enough, but the fashion industry is also actively hastening the destruction of the very Earth we walk on. It insists on launching fresh collections each season, declaring yesterday's range obsolete on a whim.

The ideology of consumption is so prevalent that it has become invisible: it is the plastic soup in which we swim.

We live in a world that is full of product. We have too much.

We rip out a perfectly good kitchen worth thousands of pounds, only to replace it with another costing roughly the same. The old one has to be disposed of, the new one had to be made. From raw materials, factory processes and transportation the extra effort is substantial. Overcomplication.

We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival.

If we just stop producing stuff, if we stop being so capitalist, we stop taking resources from other third world countries, we'll be happy.