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["Adán"] We're victims of the few economically-privileged who make decisions that end up affecting lots of people. We have the right to ask why. And from this why we can look for answers and initiate a process of transformation.
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There are many factors driving global society towards a low-wage, low-growth, high-profit future, with increasing polarization and social disintegration. Another consequence is the fading of meaningful democratic processes as decision making is vested in private institutions and the quasi-governmental structures that are coalescing around them, what the Financial Times calls a "de facto world government" that operates in secret and without accountability.
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People say that if one robber steals from another, the devil laughs. In nature all species devour each other, and in society all the classes feed on one another.
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...the rich, who become the first victims of that wretched insignificance, into which the members of every corrupted state, by the tendency of their weaknesses, and their vises, are in haste to plunge themselves.
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In large measure the future of industrial relations is an unknown, an emergent still to be decided by changing influences only dimly discernible. A simple projection of current trend lines appears most precarious.
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The bourgeoisie keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralized the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands.
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The corporation is now a very stable basis of operation; in fact, I believe that it is more stable and more important for the continuance of the American arrangement than the lifetime family.
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It is idle to pretend that after passing through a dark period of confused counsels, a more mature society is now attempting no more than to restore to health and freedom natural instincts erroneously repressed. For we no longer live in a stable society, much less a mature one, but a society being rent apart by the torrential forces of modern technology and commerce, and one already torn wide open by modern communications, a society in a state of rapid dissolution.
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An open, easy and full-hearted relationship with one's fellows, for instance, is not something that can be bought, or contrived, or willed into being. The indispensable ingredient of such a relationship is mutual trust, a quality nurtured in the small agrarian society based on mutual dependence, and one of the first casualties in any society whose energies are drawn into the competitive scramble for material ends.
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This is the type edified by Arnold Bennett — the type who starts off with half a crown and ends up with fifty thousand pounds, and whose chief pride is to be an even greater boor after he has made his money than before. On analysis his sole virtue turns out to be a talent for making money. We were bidden to admire him because though he might be narrow-minded, sordid, ignorant, grasping, and uncouth, he had 'grit', he 'got on'; in other words, he knew how to make money.
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Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.
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April 11, 2020 : Society -- Added.
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