Living capital, which has the special capacity to continuously regenerate itself, is ultimately the source of all real wealth. To destroy it for money, a simple number with no intrinsic value, is an act of collective insanity -- which makes capitalism a mental, as well as physical pathology.
To create a world in which life can flourish and prosper we must
replace the values and institutions of capitalism with values and institutions
that honor life, serve life's needs, and restore money to its proper role as
servant. I believe we are in fact being called to take a step to a new level of
species consciousness and function.
The proper goal of an economic democracy agenda is to replace
the global suicide economy ruled by rapacious and unaccountable global
corporations with a planetary system of local living economies comprised of
human-scale enterprise rooted in the communities they serve and locally owned
by the people whose wellbeing depends on them.
- David Korten
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