Karen Tei Yamashita Quotes

The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you are no longer human beings but only labor. It means that the land you live on is not earth but only property.

Karen Tei Yamashita

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• The myth of the first world is that development is wealth and technology progress. It is all rubbish. It means that you are no longer human beings but only labor. It means that the land you live on is not earth but only property.

  

  Karen Tei Yamashita
  • World
  • Technology
  • Mean