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We can’t talk about a better world without, first and foremost, talking about the economic ideology that has pushed us to the edge of destruction.
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When we combine hope with imagination, we unlock the ability to envision innovative solutions to social, environmental, and systemic issues, enabling and empowering ourselves to champion the values needed to build a better world.
The economy needn’t be a war; it can be for the common good. To get there, we must retrieve our innate good will and rediscover what it means to be human.
Economics and the global economy should serve rather than dominate people – and that includes factoring in and optimising for all aspects of human wellbeing too.
'Every story is weak until it’s told and every story is life altering when heard.'
All said and done, in a nut shell, the path to our empowerment is: Throw the orgy of the discredited neoliberalism into the dustbin of history. Lest we forget, unless we change our economic philosophy, the false values that are currently underpinning our economic strategies and above all our obsession with endless economic growth, nothing, absolutely nothing, will change for the better. We are at the edge and sooner or later we will fall off the cliff.
Nota bene
As an economist who has studied, researched and worked an an academician in economics, ethics, philosophy and theology, amongst others, I now firmly believe that the most assured way to ensure economic success and to build a better world is to broaden one’s horizons of thought, wisdom, insight, empathy, and the need to underpin economics, scientific and technical changes, with steel beams of philosophy, humanities, and spirituality. These being the means to see every person’s need for respect, self-awareness and status of the best sort. Modern economics has become a monetised/ materialistic discipline. But literature, poetry, arts, music, philosophy, logic, religions, mysticism, empathy, kindness, and spirituality have taught me immeasurably more than strict economics ever could.
It is now my firm belief that, without taking a non-materialistic/ non-monetised position and approach, it is not possible for humanity to survive and flourish in the current period in Earth's history. The time is now for the economic actors to abandon the single primary goal of financial wealth creation. Today’s systematic realities demand actions in the interest of the common good, facilitated by transition toward sustainable value creation. Economics must move beyond the current prevailing reductionist science. Economics should focus on wellbeing creation to serve the flourishing and the thriving of human and non-human beings, now and for ever. Carpe diem!
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