The above principles suggest some kind of diverse and politically decentralised society, with co-operative management and ownership of productive wealth, It would be conceived on a human scale, whether in terms of size and complexity or organisation or of environmental planning, and would use modern technology selectively rather than being used by it in the service of selfish interests. in Schumacher's words, "It is question of finding the right path of development, the Middle Way, between materialist heedlessness and traditionalist immobility, in short, of finding 'Right Livelihood".