Survival of a Culture is Directly Related to Economic Sustainability. P. 169
“This sounds like the opposite from death by multiple wounds, kind of like life-growth by multiple social and economic deeds.” P. 155
There are three legs in a stable stool:
1) the business owner,
2) the workers, and
3) the free market. P. 444
In a Barrio these are key questions: Is architectural historical preservation a help or a hindrance to cultural continuity? How does poverty play a role in this process, pros and cons? P. 163. Would this be leveling the playing field or creating an accelerated displacement and gentrification because of the shifting economics caused by historic restoration? P. 167
To level the playing field in cultures, we must use law, economics, and technology. P. 239
Diversity without competition creates a declining mediocrity. At home, in the schools, and in the world market P. 387
“The big problem with Republicans, besides not cleaning the corruption in their tent, is lack of attention to how the economics is affecting the social fabric, and, in educating the population on it.” P. 391. Democrats always refuse to acknowledge how economics really work. To them, it was politics, not economics. Economics is only to dress things up. P. 430
If innovating finances changed the course of history, then innovating finances can change the course of the Barrio. P. 489