Carolina QuotesSome people have low susceptibility to advertising and marketing techniques. These are the people who aren't interested in money. Material acquisition does not serve their need for the power process.
Ted Kaczynski Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"How Some People Adjust", paragraph 81
- work
- Industrial Society and Its Future (1995)
- year
- 1995
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