"I like computers. I like the Internet. It's a tool that can be used. But don't be misled into thinking that these technologies are anything other than aspects of a degenerate economic system"
- Jerry Brown
About this Quote
This quote by Jerry Brown is a warning to not be tricked by the relatively positive aspects of technology and the internet. He is saying that while these innovations can be utilized as tools, they are ultimately a product of a degenerate economic system. He is cautioning us to not be blinded by the capacity of these technologies and to recognize the underlying issues that have actually created them. He is suggesting that we ought to know the implications of these technologies and the economic system that has created them. He is likewise recommending that we ought to bear in mind the possible effects of these technologies and the economic system that has actually developed them. Eventually, he is alerting us to not be fooled by the potential of these innovations and to acknowledge the underlying concerns that have actually created them.
This quote is written / told by Jerry Brown somewhere between April 7, 1938 and today. He/she was a famous Politician from USA.
The author also have 18 other quotes.
"States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities"
"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life"
"Our people can draw on the tremendous strides made in recent years, not only in terms of advancing themselves spiritually and materially, but also in having weathered social and economic turbulence, triggered, in the main, by factors not of their own creation"
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists"
"From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase"
"But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings"
"Now is not the time to compromise on the economy. Instead, we should be doing everything in our power to support long-term economic growth. Permanent repeal of the death tax will mean more high-quality, high-paying jobs for Americans"
