“The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm, capitalism is that kind of a system.” KindPhilosophyProblemPoliticalSocialLibertyCapitalismEconomicsOrganizationGreedHarmLibertarianArrangementsFree Market CapitalismSocial Organization Book:Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest Source: Bright Promises, Dismal Performance: An Economist's Protest
“My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak. What I see in my country, progressively over these years, is that the rich have got richer, the poor have got poorer. The rich have become indifferent through a philosophy of greed, and the poorer have become hopeless because they're not properly cared for. That's actually something that is happening in many Western societies. Your own, I am told, is not free from it.” YearsFirstsCountryPhilosophyCarePoorRichProtectHappeningsWeakWesternGreedDefinitionsTake CareDecentHopelessLoserIndifferentWestern Society Author:John le Carre
“Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have been created for togetherness, and what drives us apart is greed, lust for power, and a sense of exclusion, but those are aberrations.” HumansHas BeensPhilosophyHumanityFallSimpleConceptsGreedAncientLustBiblicalNeverthelessTogethernessSimple ThingsExclusionFall BackUbuntuAberrationLust For Power Author:Allan Boesak