THE PREVAILING WORLD economy is… what? Absurd? Perverse? Wicked? Insane? Certainly it does not serve us well – or our fellow creatures, or the fabric of the world itself. Demonstrably, the rich grow steadily richer while the poor grow poorer, and although the rich may be very rich indeed – off the Richter scale of comprehensible wealth – this does not necessarily make them happy. Billionaire James Goldsmith once said, “I feel I have won a game of poker on board The Titanic. Why should I want even more money when I will just be surrounded by more and more poor and suffering people ...
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