People in the Western world spend money on such stupid things. I have heard tales of people who play World Of Warcraft spending a thousand real life dollars on an imaginary magical sword. There comes a point when dollars are no longer a reliable unit of measurement.
yes and if you sit and think about that statement, you will see its true. I'm thinking he means humanity as a whole is in poverty, because we dont know how to live with each other, and "greed" (which is also a relative term like the word "poverty" ) or our compulsion to control thru our want to become unlimited from within the limited body drives us to hold down other lives, instead of living as we really are suppossed to be...as one.
Of course....cities are built for Cars not for people, suburbia is still the ideal of the modern slave, yet, I think the best would be to live on human-size cities.