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When God of Capitalism answers prayers, look out
By David Hill |
November 12, 2009, Thursday
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THE capitalist system has shown that there are major drawbacks and immense human stresses in worshiping upon the altar of bottom-line profit maximization - the God of Capitalism.
Indeed, the inherent greed factor that is the devil in the capitalist system has no conscience or built-in mechanism to preserve the human experience.
For it only takes and does not give back in any meaningful sustainability way.
It also has no capacity to do so for it is there solely for the benefit and enrichment of the very few, not the many.
Therefore due to its direct actions it is a self-interested system that only looks at today and not to the preservation of the world and what it will be like tomorrow.
The complexity of the world order now, with its vastly depleting natural resources, makes it ever more imperative that we look to a sustainable system of global trade and discourse.
These are not words of scare mongering, but sheer facts that are now appearing yearly on the wall of future history and, where combined with the dire effects of climate change, the present world order is on the path to its own destruction.
Inequality grows apart by the year under the present capitalism system and where history documents this very well, it is happening continually throughout the world and even in so-called rich countries like the United States, which has increasing poverty year-on-year.
A country distant from capitalism, China is in a position to help change all this.
(David Hill, executive director of the World Innovation Foundation, Bern, Switzerland.)
Indeed, the inherent greed factor that is the devil in the capitalist system has no conscience or built-in mechanism to preserve the human experience.
For it only takes and does not give back in any meaningful sustainability way.
It also has no capacity to do so for it is there solely for the benefit and enrichment of the very few, not the many.
Therefore due to its direct actions it is a self-interested system that only looks at today and not to the preservation of the world and what it will be like tomorrow.
The complexity of the world order now, with its vastly depleting natural resources, makes it ever more imperative that we look to a sustainable system of global trade and discourse.
These are not words of scare mongering, but sheer facts that are now appearing yearly on the wall of future history and, where combined with the dire effects of climate change, the present world order is on the path to its own destruction.
Inequality grows apart by the year under the present capitalism system and where history documents this very well, it is happening continually throughout the world and even in so-called rich countries like the United States, which has increasing poverty year-on-year.
A country distant from capitalism, China is in a position to help change all this.
(David Hill, executive director of the World Innovation Foundation, Bern, Switzerland.)
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