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We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no joy equal to that of being able to work for all humanity and doing what you’re doing well.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Able Humanity Joy
Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Feeling Increased Wealth
Universe is the aggregate of all humanity’s consciously apprehended and communicated nonsimultaneous and only partially overlapping experiences.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Overlapping Universe
I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Humanity Look Up Looks
It is one of our most exciting discoveries that local discovery leads to a complex of further discoveries.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Discovery Exciting Problems Unsolved
It is one of the strange facts of experience that when we try to think about the future, our thoughts jump backwards. It may well be that nature has some fundamental metaphysical law by which opening up what we call the future also opens up the past in equal degree.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Law Past Thinking
All sports are time control demonstrations.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Demonstration Sports
Spaceship Earth was so extraordinarily well invented and designed that to our knowledge humans have been on board it for two million years not even knowing that they were on board a ship.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Board Diameter Humans Knowledge
All their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Deprivation Million Month Pain Peace
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Earning Living Notion
All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Children Firsts Years
Only ten years ago the ‘more with less’ technology reached the point where this could be done. All humanity now has the option to become enduringly successful.
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Enduringly Humanity Less Reached Technology
Havenotness is caused by society’s failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Design Tools Wisdom
If humans are not required to earn a living to be provided survival needs, many are going to want very much to be productive, but not at those tasks they did not choose to do but were forced to accept in order to earn money.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Order Survival Tasks
We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Diversity Fate Success
We speak erroneously of “artificial” materials, “synthetics”, and so forth. The basis for this erroneous terminology is the notion that Nature has made certain things which we call natural, and everything else is “man-made”, ergo artificial.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER

Learning Men Science