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Most people, 95% of people, are good people. It's the 5% who get seduced by power.
I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices.
I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
It's like when something good is happening with young people, then the old, grey people in power will be like: 'No! It cannot be like this!'
Pomegranate juice has staying power. It's not a fad. Once people have tasted POM Wonderful, they say they are addicted - and it's a good addiction to have.
We really can't tell the difference between people who might seek power for some greater good and people who seek power just to aggrandize themselves. For example, all revolutionaries say that they want to uplift the downtrodden.
If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill - the human cost of public works. That's what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.
Now, McDonald's is a very good indicator of the global economy. If McDonald's doesn't increase its sales, it tells you that the monetary policies have largely failed in the sense that prices are going up more than disposable income, and so people have less purchasing power.