From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Mon Nov 03 2003 - 20:21:19 GMT
Hi
Seems important to me that we satisfy many of our
wants outside of the economy, helping to undermine
an economics that depends on growth. Take a seat relax,
do nothing, read an old book, put off that shopping trip.
But as we all become unemployed it will get tough. Seems
to me that in many jobs there is becoming less and less efficient
working practices, lots of paperwork and nothing
made or done.
regards
DM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wim Nusselder" <wim.nusselder@antenna.nl>
To: "MD" <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 8:59 PM
Subject: MD economics of want and greed 7 (end)
> The last instalment! The whole text can be read at
> www.antenna.nl/wim.nusselder/schrijfsels/economics.htm .
>
> HOW CAN WE CHANGE THE PRESENT ECONOMY INTO WHAT IT SHOULD BE?
>
> The key to reorganizing how people get what they want in order to increase
> their contentment is involuntary patterns of behavior.
> Involuntarily following leaders and copying other people's behavior cannot
> simply be substituted by a fully conscious economic system, however. The
> limited (capacities to grow) complexity of identity and (to increase)
> conscious
> activity of the people involved doesn't permit jumping from primary or
> secondary economics to quaternary economics or from primary to tertiary
> economics. The transition to a next form of economics can only be made
when
> dissatisfaction with the former one has increased sufficiently for people
to
> try a new type of leaders. As said before: such transitions are usually
not
> substitutions anyway, but additions of new types of society and leadership
> and gradual changes in the balance between the different types.
>
> Changing the economy therefore requires identifying wants that are less
then
> optimally satisfied by involuntary patterns of behavior and leading people
> in a
> new way to satisfy them in a different way. The tactical way is to present
> these wants as new wants, but confrontation with leaders formerly
organizing
> the satisfaction of comparable wants cannot always be avoided.
>
> Back to the title: 'economics of want and greed'. Until now I have only
> dealt with 'wants' and 'want'. 'Greed' refers to a statement that always
> strikes me as profoundly true: 'Our fear and our greed are distroying our
> future.'
> Fear is the result of trying to change people's involuntary patterns of
> behavior that are satisfying real wants. They don't know yet what they
will
> get instead and cannot consciously work it out, because of the unconscious
> way in which they satisfied these wants before.
> Greed is what motivates leaders who do not relinquish their leadership
when
> a better way presents itself to satisfy the wants of their followers which
> they are presently organizing. As said: 'political economists' who want
> other people to want something and who organize satisfaction of that want,
> can do so to get something for themselves in return or to contribute to a
> better world. The first (not necessarily conscious) drive constitutes
greed
> once that way of organizing satisfaction of that want can be superseded.
>
> Both fear and greed are what political economists who want to contribute
to
> a better world have to deal with. The way to do so is given by the
opposite
> of the former statement:
> 'Our trust and our selfless commitment are building our future.'
>
>
>
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