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Originally posted by Agamemnon@Sep 29 2004, 06:58 PM
This is a link to a book-summary "When Corporations Ruled the World". Basically talks about the myth of global economic growth and how the way we measure growth may not be the best way to measure when taking into account quality of life.
I don't necessarily stand by the stuff strongly, but I do believe that the current never-ending growth paradigm with roots from the Industrial Revolution (unlimited resources, limited labour) all the way to now (limited resources, unlimited labour) is pretty screwed up.
Interesting stuff.
http://www.pcdf.org/corprule/myths.htm
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We should be more than skeptical of an economic model that calls on us to give up all loyalty to place and community, says we must give free reign to securities fraud and corporate monopolies and deny workers the right to organize, and tells the poor to run faster and faster after a train they have no chance of catching-so that a few hundred thousand people can become multi-millionaires by destroying nature and depriving others of a decent means of livelihood.
Interesting but not particularly valid since it ignores human nature, the human part of us that wants more. The trickle down effect of globalization in places like China and India is becoming obvious. As is the hunger in those places for more.
There was also this paragraph.
Perhaps the most important discovery of all is that life is about living-not consuming. A life of material sufficiency can be filled with social, cultural, intellectual, and spiritual abundance that place no burden on the planet. It is time to assume responsibility for creating a new human future of just and sustainable societies freed from the myth that greed, competition, and mindless consumption are paths to individual and collective fulfillment.
That sounds like it was written by Captain Picard. Utopia but ignoring human nature.
Cowperson