The modern consumer culture was born – not as a response to innate human greed or customer demand, but to the needs of industrial capital. With strong opposition, it can be changed.
By recognizing that our underlying values are inherited from previous generations, we can become more conscious of them. This, in turn, allows us to choose other values with the potential to lead to a flourishing future for humankind.
By Steven Gorelick; originally published on the Economics of Happiness Blog at http://www.localfutures.org/sharing-economy-takes-more-than-smartphone/.
The world is facing several crises: economic, environmental and social. We tend to look at these issues individually and believe we can find answers to each problem independently.
A cooperative effort is required to establish a new economic paradigm that will improve the quality of life for society as a whole, not just a privileged faction.
