Saving Humanity Will Be Bad For The Economy
To keep living we’ll need to change this thing we’ve been taught to serve called ‘the economy’.
The economy is destroying the planet and threatening all of humanity. That is a matter of fact. The ecological and human disasters of the economy are too many to list in full but among them are lost of topsoil, climate change, and ocean acidification. Not to mention the human cost of a system that creates such gross dependency that nearly everyone is threatened with homelessness and starvation if they refuse to obey the economy — the stress and misery of that alone would be enough to hold the it in contempt.
This grand apparatus we call ‘the economy’ is a monster which is destroying human kind at the individual and global scale. We have to end this monster for our own sakes. To save human kind not just from extinction but from suffering and economic bondage will be bad for this economy — but good for the next one, and good for us.
There are many ways to organize a better economy that doesn’t destroy us, but for now we have to accept how drastic the necessary changes are going to be. One necessary change is to put life — both survival and happiness — before anything else. That is a simple enough change in values, but to honour those values means radically changing the economy.
