I’d also like to point out that 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.
– Bruce Sterling in an interview on BoingBoing on Cities
Tags: Bruce Sterling, cities, quote
This entry was posted
on Thursday, September 8th, 2011 at 5:26 am and is filed under quotes.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.