The logical train is:
Capitalism is inequality and creates more inequality.
But greater equality is good for all of us, the planet included (see the evidence in The Spirit Level book and at www.equalitytrust.org.uk note: evidence not opinion).
So, for peace, sustainability and harmony we need an economic, social, personal system that creates greater equality: which capitalism, however managed, cannot do.
The latter is due to the fact that the global economic referrent, money, circulates as interest-bearing debt (rent and profits-to-shareholders are ciphers/stand-ins for interest: these are three of the four types of usury).
That, quite artificial life form (usury) is destroying the planet because its (quite artificial) 'need' to make the maximum return in the shortest possible time maximises the generation of pollution, the chemistry of which (and I'm a now-retired/discarded PhD Chemist) is:
Materials + Energy --> Wealth + Pollution
In capitalism, the sale-value of the Wealth created has to be greater than the £-cost of the Materials+Energy.
This, then, concentrates money: which increased concentration goes back into the wealth+pollution cycle: generating exponentially-increasing amounts of pollution. As observed.
So, the economic sysyem that creates greater equality, with all its benefits, is already defined.
It's called the plan for Co-operative Socialism.
Details of which are in the papers' section at www.interestfreemoney.org as a composite of all policies that have been heard over twenty-five years which aim to *replace* capitalism, *not* manage it.
There are a number of videos and a radio interview on YouTube, which may be found by searching the hyphenated term:
"Co-operative Socialism".
Capitalism is inequality and creates more inequality.
But greater equality is good for all of us, the planet included (see the evidence in The Spirit Level book and at www.equalitytrust.org.uk note: evidence not opinion).
So, for peace, sustainability and harmony we need an economic, social, personal system that creates greater equality: which capitalism, however managed, cannot do.
The latter is due to the fact that the global economic referrent, money, circulates as interest-bearing debt (rent and profits-to-shareholders are ciphers/stand-ins for interest: these are three of the four types of usury).
That, quite artificial life form (usury) is destroying the planet because its (quite artificial) 'need' to make the maximum return in the shortest possible time maximises the generation of pollution, the chemistry of which (and I'm a now-retired/discarded PhD Chemist) is:
Materials + Energy --> Wealth + Pollution
In capitalism, the sale-value of the Wealth created has to be greater than the £-cost of the Materials+Energy.
This, then, concentrates money: which increased concentration goes back into the wealth+pollution cycle: generating exponentially-increasing amounts of pollution. As observed.
So, the economic sysyem that creates greater equality, with all its benefits, is already defined.
It's called the plan for Co-operative Socialism.
Details of which are in the papers' section at www.interestfreemoney.org as a composite of all policies that have been heard over twenty-five years which aim to *replace* capitalism, *not* manage it.
There are a number of videos and a radio interview on YouTube, which may be found by searching the hyphenated term:
"Co-operative Socialism".
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