I have recently watched a documentary title "Inside Job". It is a narration of the events that led to the most recent financial crisis that has left millions of people without jobs, houses and pension and a few sharks very rich. I encourage you to watch, check the website here: http://www.sonyclassics.com/insidejob/
This award-winning documentary explains in layman terms what has really happened and has certainly helped me understanding how the entire financial system is designed for failure, or should I say to make the rich richer while disregarding completely the welfare and benefit of the masses. Make no mistake, the last financial crisis did not happen by chance, it was foreseeable and experts had in fact predicted it would come. Some of my friends in the banking industry had actually warned me months in advance, though at that time I thought that the system could not allow for that to happen. Well they were right, I was wrong. Our governments led by bankers do not care if you are going to lose your well earned and deserved pension after years and years of hard work and savings, or your dream home that you have work hard to buy.
The current system is comparable to that game where people walk around a bunch of chairs and when the music stops all have to sit. Sadly there is one chair less than the number of people so one person must be left standing.
"We may have already surpassed the point at which we can sustainably support the world's population using present standards of production and consumption. That disturbing possibility should impel us to seek, as sensibly and quickly as possible, an integration of our wants and needs as expressed and served by commerce, with the capacity of the earth, water, forests, and fields to meet them" - Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Thursday, August 9, 2012
It is our life
This is the first post about mutual responsibility and how looking after each other can create a better world for everyone. A video is better than a million words! So please watch it!
More details at www.mutualresponsibility.org
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