Discuss: Breaking the Spell of Money

@Paul Puckett - here’s one source that demonstrates financial sector profits greatly exceeded 22% of all corporate profits this past decade: http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/03/30/chart-of-the-day-us-financial-profits/

nice essay, but pointless. sure it sounds good to “break the spell of money” but there are no realistic suggestions here to do that.

this essay is about as useful as saying “if everyone was just nice to each other, so many problems would be solved…”

So lee, what do you suggest we do?

There is only one sensible proposal of what to do http://moneyouttapolitics.org/pdf/pq_the_20_percent_solutionre_mop.pdf

One factor lost on the author and liberals in general is the evolutionary expectation of these gazalionaires emerging in any unbridled capitalist system. These Koch Bros Murdochians and their ilk are hoarding all the cash without investing in the public in order to insure the maximized transmission of their heritable power and wealth inter-generationally. Obviously this strategy is not well thought out, but i suspect that this is what motivates and justifies.  just like any standard monarchy of old, the successful lineages self perpetuate their girth and power over the peasants, even if it means buying out as many media outlets and lobbyist groups as possible. Let’s cut of their fucking heads!!

It is so depressing that we spend our whole lives wanting more and we will never achieve those goals no matter how rich-like they say-money cannot buy happieness

Sonofson — Maybe cutting off heads comes naturally to one self-named son of whatever, but it is not so easy to actually carry out, and in any case does not offer a real lasting solution to our historic problems, however pleasing it may sound to our less evolved propensities.

In New Zealand a group of us are working on new indicators for national wellbeing.  It’s called AnewNZ, please visit our website http://www.anewnz.org.nz

New Zealand is developing an initiative that goes “Beyond GDP”,  The “What Matters Most to New
Zealanders” programme, being led by Anew NZ includes many of the features reported above from Ron Colman‟s, the OECD‟s and Stigliz‟s work, including the innovations of Bhutan.
We believe change can happen fast if the will of the people is engaged.  The paradigm shift to a ‘you and me’ economy is happening.