Perhaps in time we have created a monster in the shape of a group of rich people who create wealth. The size of such a creation is often portrayed as out of proportion to the overall wealth of the world, through words and numbers alike. And the feeling is that we can do nothing about it. We are small, they are big. They can, we cannot. And sometimes...if the occasion arises, one could argue if you can't beat them join them.
Multinationals and other corporate realities, are indeed the owners of most of the financial world globally, many statistics prove this. But what are the factors creating this reality?
The answer is surely complex, however, i would like to propose that whilst greed exists, and is perceived as successful, we all have a share in making the gap between poorer and richer wider?
In not participating in the creation of wealth, injecting doses of humanity, balance and justice in the process, we participate in letting the world wealth pie:
- be smaller than it could be,
- have the 'Good' part of it missing
- be dominated by the realities we perceive as unjust, wrong, and/or sometimes evil.
What is wealth?
How is wealth created?
How to have checks and balances to see that in the process of creating wealth justice and balance remain in focus?
What is a market?
Is there a market out there for a fairer world?
The case for social enterprise and market education for a fairer world.
Its not about how much money we have, but about how we choose to invest our money, time, and capacity.
Notes
-Guided by the suggestion that it should be easier to light a candle than to cancel darkness
-A definition of wealth (collection of social, emotional, and financial capital)
-in letting the pie grow smaller, we too participate in making the rich richer and the poor poorer
the rich get richer also by having a bigger share in a smaller pie.
Multinationals and other corporate realities, are indeed the owners of most of the financial world globally, many statistics prove this. But what are the factors creating this reality?
The answer is surely complex, however, i would like to propose that whilst greed exists, and is perceived as successful, we all have a share in making the gap between poorer and richer wider?
In not participating in the creation of wealth, injecting doses of humanity, balance and justice in the process, we participate in letting the world wealth pie:
- be smaller than it could be,
- have the 'Good' part of it missing
- be dominated by the realities we perceive as unjust, wrong, and/or sometimes evil.
What is wealth?
How is wealth created?
How to have checks and balances to see that in the process of creating wealth justice and balance remain in focus?
What is a market?
Is there a market out there for a fairer world?
The case for social enterprise and market education for a fairer world.
Its not about how much money we have, but about how we choose to invest our money, time, and capacity.
Notes
-Guided by the suggestion that it should be easier to light a candle than to cancel darkness
-A definition of wealth (collection of social, emotional, and financial capital)
-in letting the pie grow smaller, we too participate in making the rich richer and the poor poorer
the rich get richer also by having a bigger share in a smaller pie.
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