24 April 2024

Alternative economics

Bookmarked Buddhist Economics: How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption by Maria Popova.

To organize work in such a manner that it becomes meaningless, boring, stultifying, or nerve-racking for the worker would be little short of criminal; it would indicate a greater concern with goods than with people, an evil lack of compassion and a soul-destroying degree of attachment to the most primitive side of this worldly existence. Equally, to strive for leisure as an alternative to work would be considered a complete misunderstanding of one of the basic truths of human existence, namely that work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.

— E. F. Schumacher

Again, I cannot stop pondering how do we create a world based on "economics as if people mattered"?

Again, the only answer is that we do it by leading the way.