Never has there been more wealth to be distributed in the world than today. And never before has there been more humans starving in the world. Tens of thousands of people dies of starvation every day, at the same time as others live in abundance and die from wealth.
For the last 25-30 years or so there has been two expressions steering the economic thinking, free markets and deregulations. These have been said to create human freedom.
What they have done in practice is that they have created freedom, measured in economic terms, for a few. And most of all they have created freedom for the capital.
For the mass of humans it has meant that we are prisoners in an ever continuing treadmill, with work and a hunt for more and more consumption and economic growth. Does this make us happy? Is this a humane economy? Is it even an economy that is beneficiary to our common societies?
It is neither of those. It is a destructive economy.
The economic power in few hands
The transformation of the economic decisions from common bodies to corporates through free markets and deregulations means that the power of the economy has slipped into a few humans (most men) hands.
Today ten times more of the available capital is used for speculation and playing with financial instruments than what is used in all trading and services in the world. Big corporates move to countries with low paid labour, although they do billions in profits.
This is allowed although these corporates have succeeded thanks to whole societies. They are no lone players. Like all others they are dependent on the societies where they are active. Corporates need infrastructures to be able to work properly.
This kind of economy is not good for humanity and thus neither for societies. The economy is a common good. For example no private human or company is allowed to print there own money. The money is there for the whole society.
Economic madness
If a lot of money is used for speculation and other artificial activities it is away from the wheel that keeps societies and the world rolling and developing.
To give a lot of money to a few humans and little to the rest is economic madness. These few can´t keep the money rolling for the best of all. It undermines the economy.
If the money and the resources are spread on more hands it can also be more cleverly used in gain of everyone.
Business can very well be combined with human rights, but only if the resources are evenly spread among all and the businesses are made with human needs in the foreground.
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