Quotes by David Korten

David Korten

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

Abuse

Erosion

Long

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Long

Practice

Rogues

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Capitalism

Democracy

Enemy

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Choices

Hands

People

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

Cutting

Environmental

Innovation

Entranced by promises of a material paradise of limitless luxury, humanity has too long ignored the mismatch between the imperatives of our existence as living beings on a finite planet and the imperatives of the institutions of money that chart our path to the future. Created to build colonial empires in service to kings, global corporations are ill suited to the task of building just, sustainable, and compassionate civil societies that nurture sufficiency, partnership, and respect for the whole of life.

Kings

Long

Luxury

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

Proud

Rights

Strong

Global competition is about winners and losers.

Competition

Loser

Winner

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

Looks

Wages

Years

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

Debt

Looks

Years

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America

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Cooperation

Corporate

Country

Cutting

Debt

Defense

Democracy

Differences

Easier

Economic Globalization

Economics

Economy

Ecosystems

Enemy

Environmental

Erosion

Excess

Hands

Humans

Imagination

Innovation

Inspiring

Interesting

Internationalism

Kings

Levels

Life

Long

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Loser

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People

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Quotes by David Korten

David Korten

An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power and the erosion of the natural, social, and moral capital that such abuses commonly exacerbate.

As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.

Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.

Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.

Corporate globalists and the corporate empires they serve may be at the cutting edge of technological innovation, but socially and environmentally they are relics of a bygone era of imperial colonial rule, elite privilege, and state-sanctioned plunder.

Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.

Global competition is about winners and losers.

If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.

If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.

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