Economics - Key Words And Concepts
Deconstructing The Myths of Capitalism
External Costs
History of Suburbia - Capitalism At Work
Disaster Capitalism - Degrading People And Planet Is Good For Business
The Consumer Culture Is Non Negotiable - You Are A Captive To A Sinking Ship
Social Engineering - The Consumer Culture In An Historical Context - Bernays and Lippmann
US Foreign Policy Doctrine - All About Commercial Interests
The Consumer Culture Fuels The US Military
America Is A Cargo Cult Complete With Rituals, Shamans and Make Believe
Community And Economic Development - Paradigm Shift Needs Time and Money
Buy Now Pay Later - Creating More Debt and Larger Eco Footprints
More content to be added.
This critique of capitalism is not simply to diss the economic system. When we better understand where our problems are coming from we can better understand how to repair the damage and stop causing more of the same damage. We should even practice the precautionary principle - what is the potential for some new process or product to make problems. That's a tough one. One person's fortune could be thousands of peoples' problem.
Will we rid ourselves of capitalism? Probably not in the short term but we can quit buying the products that don't fit sustainability. That will most certainly help those who just say no thanks to the products and services that the economic system produces.
A modern economic system does not just manufacture stuff. The economic system we are familiar with produces wants, as in social engineering. It invents new stuff, some of it responsible, a lot of it not. The economic system also creates enormous wealth, especially for those who own the System. No one disagrees money buys influence in government. Most would agree money buys a lot of attention from politicians. Many people believe we live in a democracy.
As long as making money and economic growth are the primary goals of capitalism, we will see current social, economic, political, environmental and even spiritual problems only become worse. As we will see in this chapter, the economic system cannot exist without externalizing the cost of production, consumption & disposal. Capitalism isn't broken - wrecking havoc to people & planet is just what it does.
There are other choices to make.
Contact Jan Support The Primer
Deconstructing The Myths of Capitalism
External Costs
History of Suburbia - Capitalism At Work
Disaster Capitalism - Degrading People And Planet Is Good For Business
The Consumer Culture Is Non Negotiable - You Are A Captive To A Sinking Ship
Social Engineering - The Consumer Culture In An Historical Context - Bernays and Lippmann
US Foreign Policy Doctrine - All About Commercial Interests
The Consumer Culture Fuels The US Military
America Is A Cargo Cult Complete With Rituals, Shamans and Make Believe
Community And Economic Development - Paradigm Shift Needs Time and Money
Buy Now Pay Later - Creating More Debt and Larger Eco Footprints
More content to be added.
This critique of capitalism is not simply to diss the economic system. When we better understand where our problems are coming from we can better understand how to repair the damage and stop causing more of the same damage. We should even practice the precautionary principle - what is the potential for some new process or product to make problems. That's a tough one. One person's fortune could be thousands of peoples' problem.
Will we rid ourselves of capitalism? Probably not in the short term but we can quit buying the products that don't fit sustainability. That will most certainly help those who just say no thanks to the products and services that the economic system produces.
A modern economic system does not just manufacture stuff. The economic system we are familiar with produces wants, as in social engineering. It invents new stuff, some of it responsible, a lot of it not. The economic system also creates enormous wealth, especially for those who own the System. No one disagrees money buys influence in government. Most would agree money buys a lot of attention from politicians. Many people believe we live in a democracy.
As long as making money and economic growth are the primary goals of capitalism, we will see current social, economic, political, environmental and even spiritual problems only become worse. As we will see in this chapter, the economic system cannot exist without externalizing the cost of production, consumption & disposal. Capitalism isn't broken - wrecking havoc to people & planet is just what it does.
There are other choices to make.
Contact Jan Support The Primer