Will the world ever play by the same rules?

The global economy

How “global” is it?

For decades we industrialised on the back of a number of highly questionable means: from forced labour to excessive use of fossil fuels (for which we now condemn countries like China) and a lopsided monetary system that has condemned many countries to unending debt and dependence

We continue to maintain a system that strangulate those who need advancement. They remain tied-up in a tangled web of IMF loans and other borrowings that will keep them in desperation indefinitely.

It won’t take a financial genius to work out the need to restructure the global economy, wipe the slate clean, provide funding to harness solar energy in countries that have that potential, mechanise agriculture, educate and grow. Will this ever happen? NEVER. Why? We say: why should we be our brother’s keeper?

We all want cheap holidays to those exotic destinations where the local population is dependent on tourism to survive. So they can clean and carry for us, while our currency is like gold dust when we get there and the average individual becomes a king upon arrival at those destinations. So, why would we want to see them industrialise and lose their dependency on us?

The world has the means to eradicate poverty globally. We have the means of ending conflict. We can end inequality and ensure religious tolerance. We can do it all and achieve all. But we choose not to

As we go from one era to the next, we continue to utilise the same reasons, the same excuses…..