Smaller is smarter...

On Daily Kos this morning, a great discussion about the tendency to save corporations by making them bigger, comes this quote at the end of the piece:

Greed and envy demand continuous and limitless economic growth of a material kind, without proper regard for conservation, and this type of growth cannot possibly fit into a finite environment.
--E. F. Schumaker, "Small is Beautiful: Economics is if People Mattered"

An excellent discussion of the perils of defining success as size.

link to the article here: http://snipr.com/4xxn8 [www_dailykos_com]

Thought of the day: Instead of defining success as the size of your empire, why not define it as the size of your impact...