"Though the pirates are extinct, all of our international trade balancing and money ratings, as well as all economic accounting, in both the capitalistic and communistic countries, hold strictly to the rules, value systems, terminology, and concepts established by those Great Pirates. Powerful though many successors to the Great Pirates’ fragmented dominions may be, no one government, religion, or enterprise now holds the world’s physical or metaphysical initiatives."
R. Buckminster Fuller 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth' (1969) chapter 3. Comprehensively Commanded Automation (online at: Buckminster Fuller Institute)
R. Buckminster Fuller 'Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth' (1969) chapter 3. Comprehensively Commanded Automation (online at: Buckminster Fuller Institute)