In a spiritual sense, i think owning nothing probably does make you happy. I don't think the loonies at the WEF are happy at all.
All these hypocritical statements from the WEF about what we will own and about eating 'ze bugs' (a ridiculous 2012 idea shelved for being ridiculous and unnecessary) have been deliberately placed for us to sneer at and to smear everything 'left' wing and all things vegan, environmental, compassionate and protective of the earth against the military industrial complex. Industry is of course behind and controlling this social media campaign setting up the WEF as stooges bent on total control and genocide and everyone I know in health freedom has fallen for it.
As you point out about private finance, we have yet to find a way to keep "common ownership" both democratic and stable. Meanwhile, communist style systems are not democratic.
I'm not against common ownership, and am in fact a Leftist. I'm just saying that history thus far has shown that common ownership is not sufficiently stable to survive uncorrupted for decades. I don't have an idea at this point of the solution going forward. There is an inherent contradiction in the idea of powerless-becoming-powerful. Powerful leaders emerging from the powerless always, eventually, abuse (their own) powerless. I'm convinced it's at the root of the problem. The best I can come up with is that, somehow, the powerful must not be allowed to concentrate as sociopaths.
Since the definitions of Left and Right have gone FUBAR anyway in the West, I now use this one: Right prioritizes freedom, or individual functioning. Largely in reaction to the dysfunctions of unrestrained freedom of large populations, Left prioritizes fairness, or group/social/cooperative functioning. Both kinds are necessary to a healthy, large-population society. That's why forced 2-party systems like the US form perpetually into (ostensibly) Left and Right buckets.
"you'll own nothing and be happy"
Ironically, Marxists say/imply the same thing. What they have in common is concentration of power. Wealth is just one of the ways it's done.
In a spiritual sense, i think owning nothing probably does make you happy. I don't think the loonies at the WEF are happy at all.
All these hypocritical statements from the WEF about what we will own and about eating 'ze bugs' (a ridiculous 2012 idea shelved for being ridiculous and unnecessary) have been deliberately placed for us to sneer at and to smear everything 'left' wing and all things vegan, environmental, compassionate and protective of the earth against the military industrial complex. Industry is of course behind and controlling this social media campaign setting up the WEF as stooges bent on total control and genocide and everyone I know in health freedom has fallen for it.
It's very frustrating.
As you point out about private finance, we have yet to find a way to keep "common ownership" both democratic and stable. Meanwhile, communist style systems are not democratic.
I'm not against common ownership, and am in fact a Leftist. I'm just saying that history thus far has shown that common ownership is not sufficiently stable to survive uncorrupted for decades. I don't have an idea at this point of the solution going forward. There is an inherent contradiction in the idea of powerless-becoming-powerful. Powerful leaders emerging from the powerless always, eventually, abuse (their own) powerless. I'm convinced it's at the root of the problem. The best I can come up with is that, somehow, the powerful must not be allowed to concentrate as sociopaths.
Since the definitions of Left and Right have gone FUBAR anyway in the West, I now use this one: Right prioritizes freedom, or individual functioning. Largely in reaction to the dysfunctions of unrestrained freedom of large populations, Left prioritizes fairness, or group/social/cooperative functioning. Both kinds are necessary to a healthy, large-population society. That's why forced 2-party systems like the US form perpetually into (ostensibly) Left and Right buckets.