Sunday, June 6, 2010

Economics and basic human needs (#492)

The dilemma. Free market system with governmental regulation is what we have now. Yet poverty and the lack of equal opportunity are still with us. We have not divined or reasoned out the best economic system for humanity so far. There seems to be a disconnect between the value of our right to exist within a society that was established for the sake of security and the means we employ to maintain society and enhance life individually. Simply, if that is possible, We want safety but not equality. I say this all the time, life is really short and not advancing principles of equality, justice, honesty and a code of ethics and morality, as a priority for all of us by all of us is what is causing us to allow suffering within our control to stop. The free market is a good foundation for motivating and sustaining the ability to care for ourselves. It also gives us hope to build a life we would like to have, however the recompense for our labors is out of scale and differentiates us apart from each other. All of life is equal, the current system allowed for recompense is not equal. It should not be equal yet it should not be so out of balance in it's current scale. We are all in existence together and to admire a system that rewards few far above the just measure it should makes our society less egalitarian and more plutocrian. The real value of life is in the individual. We should rework how we honor this tremendous creation.

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