We do so well at creating stuff, yet so badly at creating happiness. We are good at generating profits and elite incomes yet terrible at alleviating poverty.
Sometimes I conclude that the wealth on the books for the ownership elites and the high incomes of the managerial elite come from human suffering.
We are on the age brink of non-scarcity (forget the "Age of Aquarius" nonsense), when all the basic human needs are possible with slight effort -- except that a few people have decided, out of their greed and narcissism that happiness must be denied to the rest of us.
Prosperity does not mean that a few can live like sultans; it means that nobody needs to need. If the post-modern economy fails at creating happiness then we must scrap it and return to the old one.
Sometimes I conclude that the wealth on the books for the ownership elites and the high incomes of the managerial elite come from human suffering.
We are on the age brink of non-scarcity (forget the "Age of Aquarius" nonsense), when all the basic human needs are possible with slight effort -- except that a few people have decided, out of their greed and narcissism that happiness must be denied to the rest of us.
Prosperity does not mean that a few can live like sultans; it means that nobody needs to need. If the post-modern economy fails at creating happiness then we must scrap it and return to the old one.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.