[p2p-research] the sterling quote

[Michel Bauwens]

perhaps Ryan, this will explain my beef with people like matt ridley, who
while running their business in the ground and using public money to
socialize their losses, then go on lecturing us on the benefits of the free
market:
 Bruce Sterling on
why<http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/14/bruce-sterling-inter-2.html>the
global financial oligarchy = global guerrillas:
*large financial centers in certain cities around the planet are certainly
going to kill millions of us by destroying our social safety networks in the
name of their imaginary financial efficiency. You’re a thousand times more
likely to die because of what some urban banker did in 2008 than from what
some Afghan-based terrorist did in 2001. Financiers live in small, panicky
urban cloisters, severely detached from the rest of mankind. They are living
today in rich-guy ghetto cults. They are truly dangerous to our well-being,
and they are getting worse and more extremist, not better and more
reasonable. You’re not gonna realize this havoc till you see your elderly
Mom coughing in an emergency ward, but she’s going there for a reason.*


(http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/14/bruce-sterling-inter-2.html)

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