It's Perfectly Obvious That This System Doesn't Work

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Global capitalism kills people. I can't really understand why anyone would think that statement is open to question. After all, the evidence is there for all to see. Yet we're constantly being told how successful this sort of economy is. For who? World trade talks tend to occupy themselves with efforts to further free up international markets, and increase global competition. Why? Surely the most pressing international economic problems are poverty and climate change. These issues won't be solved by further liberalising markets - this just makes things worse. Competition, by its very nature, produces winners and losers. Free markets are, by their very nature, primarily influenced by short-term, selfish thinking. If we want to solve global problems, it won't be done with 'business as usual solutions'. We need to find another way.

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When they tell you that the economy's doing great, whilst some people have no food on their plate - don't you get the feeling that something's very wrong? And do you really believe their stories of "feel-good" factors and other glories? Isn't it pretty obvious that we're being strung along? In order to find the answers we must start asking the right questions. Whilst some may become millionaires, billions more don't get air shares. Do you think this is the way the world should be? Some complain about lack of competition, whilst millions suffer from malnutrition. I can't understand how the connections are so hard to see.

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from It's Perfectly Obvious That This System Doesn't Work, released May 20, 2008

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