There was a nice article on Time a few weeks ago, on creative capitalism, explained and defended by Bill Gates:
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1828069,00.html
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10 commandments for a balanced, fair and healthy society.
Every man is a political man,
so in this space we also advocate our politics,
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- Do not kill. Even in self defence avoid the death of your aggressor. Use Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy responsibly and in cases of manifest health risks and consider the alternatives in other cases. But do not accept as dignified the living of beings in extreme pain and suffering and accept that they might prefer to terminate it.
- Respect the other. Don’t inflict bodily painful punishments. Don’t use of physical or psychological violence. Don’t insult. Control your aggressiveness. Don’t accept torture under any pretext. Respect yourself and your body and promote hygiene and health in public spaces.
- Protect the helpless. In particular care for your elderly and children and avoid their early institutional commitment and abandoning. Protect the sick and safeguard the indispensable care and treatments with dignity, based on medical criteria, not economical. Preserve dignity and respect in death. Be sympathetic.
- Consume responsibly. Work to be self-sufficient. Practice a fair consumption towards those that produce the goods, such that they receive a fair price and adequate and decent working conditions. Consider the environmental and social impact of consumer goods in all their life cycle. Minimize waste.
- Respect Nature. Don’t kill animals and plants other than for nutritional or medicinal purposes or for the purpose of controlling plagues and deceases. Protect nearly-extinct species. Respect biodiversity and life in general. Contribute for resetting or transferring of green spaces and consider the impact of your actions in the ecosystems. Prevent exhaustion of forest and water resources.
- Respect the Environment. Don’t pollute. Don’t create unnecessary garbage. Recycle. Use water and energy responsibly and efficiently. Consider the environmental sustainability of your actions. Don’t leave as a heritage to future generations a worst environment than the one you found.
- Do not oppress. Don’t accept or promote any authoritarian or totalitarian forms of government under any pretext (stability, security, nationalism, etc.). History has proven that they are always harmful to populations. Don’t accept imposition on restrictions of free mobility, association and expression. Don’t cooperate or condone in any acts of segregation or genocide.
- Get informed. Demand the practice of independent information. Consider the political and economical association of your sources of information. Demand a free (non-politicised), accessible and quality education system. Promote peaceful utilization of science and technology. Promote the defence of History and facts from manipulation for political or economical purposes. Get informed and form your own opinion and participate of public and political life. Preserve cultural wealth and heritages.
- Don’t discriminate. Don’t use gender, colour or ethnics, age, health or physical shortcomings, nationality, political, religious, sexual or other preferences as elements to discriminate, neglect, or marginalize groups or individuals from life in society. Accept difference. Fight prejudice. Integrate and include. Promote access to opportunities in equality. Reward merit but support the weak.
- Be fair. Use the laws to solve conflicts and punish acts of wickedness. Demand a fair and balanced distribution of wealth, both locally and globally, avoiding accumulation of extremes. Demand and participate in combating poverty. Don’t defend war as a form of aggression towards other people. Defend and support geographical mobility and integration of populations, in particular those originating from hostile or desolate parts of the planet.
Links
- Blog - Recycle This
- Blog - Tree Hugger
- Child Protection - UNICEF
- Chronicles - The Economist
- Chronicles - The New Yorker
- Eco Consuming - EcòAge
- Eco Consuming - Green and More
- Eco Consuming - Patagonia
- Eco Consuming - Utopia
- Endangered Species - World Wildlife Fund
- Environment - We can solve it
- Fair Trade - GEPA
- Fair Trade - Transfair
- Human Rights - Amnesty International
- Human Rights - Human Rights Watch
- News - Reuters
- Poverty - Invest in Micro Credit
- Poverty - Pobreza Zero
- Poverty - Sponsor a Child - Plan International
- Poverty - Sponsor Girl Education - CAMFED
- Recycle - Freecycle, exchange stuff for free
- Recycle - Save Resources
- Society - The Paradox of Choice
- Society - The Story of Stuff
1 comment:
Nice article, indeed, Bruno.
Although, one might ask, in view of the recent events in Washington (as of 20 Sept.) whether the original brand of American Capitalism has taken a bullet to the head...
Big corporation are making a line, cap in hand, to be bailed out by the American government, who in the meantime has made plans to take all of the bad debts created over the last few years of ´creative capitalism´.
As said before, interesting times indeed.
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