Here I am in my 62nd year reflecting on how life has been so far, and what I've learned that I'd like to see embraced by all of us.
I'm grateful for everything I've learned and I commit to sharing it with those who are willing to listen.
As we lurch deeper into an uncertain yet exciting future, I stand for the acquisition of Attitudinal Competence and Effective Leadership Behaviour so that we may achieve these wondrous outcomes: -
1. The courage and compassion to forgive authentically distressed debt. What is the point, unless you wish to plunder and take advantage of your fellow? How would you wish to be treated if you were the distressed debtor?
2. The sense to stop "making" money from money - money was designed to allow fair exchange for goods and services. There's no point in making money from money, as there's point in making shells from shells - the forerunner to money. Making money from money is a stupid illusion. I advocate for the dismantling and eventual outlawing of the making of money from money - and that includes usury. Greed - a form of fear - is at play when we make money from money and charge interest beyond the recovery of costs caused by making the loan.
3. The courage and wisdom to make sufficient profit, instead of maximum profit. Again greed is at play when we go beyond making sufficient profit.
The qualities we need to bring about these changes are courage, wisdom, freedom, responsibility and choice.
Our law is also an indicator as to what we can do.
Show me the law that prohibits forgiveness of debt - there is none.
Show me the law that enforces the charging of interest - there is none.
Show me the law that requires the maximising of profit - there is none.
These are insane and unsustainable acts - enforcing distressed debt repayment; usury; illusory "gain" from "money-making" when all money is really debt!; maximising profits - only achievable by win-lose transactions.
Who's got the courage, wisdom, choice, freedom and responsibility to begin curbing these practices?
Or shall we condemn our children to the oblivion of debt servitude and even demise as a life form?
Is there anyone willing to invest in curbing these practices?
Is there anyone who sees the insanity of the excesses of commerce by the many, causing the need for philanthropy by the few?
Are we that blinkered or scared that we cannot see a better way?
Can we see the connection between our excesses of commerce and the state of our economies; our environment; our societies; our health; our sustainability as life form on this planet?
The excesses of commerce are designed for control, and the desire for control is fueled by fear alone. Unreasonable fear.
What do you say?
What will you do?
Until next time.
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well said. If there were more who could state this and believe in it as clearly as you, business would run so much more ethically and we would likely have abolished vast amounts of anguish generated by exploitation.
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