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Money is NOT the measure of all things

by Open-Publishing - Sunday 20 February 2005
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Was just reading about Canada Health taking an ADHD med off the market. Was reading in E.F. Schumacher’s "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered" that we have GOT to geta grip on the economic "matrix" where growers can’t afford to GROW organically but they are happy if they can BUY organic. What’s up with that?

This whole business paradigm we’ve been forced to live under HAS GOT TO CHANGE! Money/profit is NOT the measure of all things and we’d better start taking LIFE seriously as IRREPLACEABLE and start treating it like the bona fide miracle it is.

Along with the lawyers, we need to shoot the Scrooges of the world who have lost their heart and believe only in ideology. These people are insane, because the final arbiter of moral truth is the human heart and our capacity for compassion, not on imposing a false god on people.

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  • LotusFawkes,

    You have a beautiful heart. F—k the money grubbers who poison the hearts, souls and minds of humanity with their selfish and pernicious philosophy.

  • You wrote: ’Was just reading about Canada Health taking an ADHD med off the market.’

    Was this a random thought that generated your money/profit, organic roll? I can’t see the connection between treating a biological, neurological disorder with a ’Small is Beautiful’ economic theory. Yes, people matter, but this issue is too big and the chemistry too complex for a small approach.

    • Are you saying that a "Big" solution must necessarily result in making "Profits?" If so, please elaborate on this conclusion. I think the writer is calling into question a system that produces profit for its own sake without regard to people.

    • Sorry, I wasn’t very clear. The essence is that people matter and profit for profit’s sake does not. The medicine was dangerous to people so it was taken off the market rather than whitewashed so that the corporation could continue raking in revenue from it.

      It’s obvious you haven’t read the book, so you might want to do that before you assume what "small" means in this context, not to mention get the drift of the overarching MORALS it takes about.

       LotusFawkes

  • "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money"