Tuesday 11 October 2011

Is Capitalism the answer?

To get to a place where we have sustainability in macro and micro economics, I believe that we have two choices.

1. Global State control over everything, a total Communal State, otherwise known as communism.
or
2. Global free markets, free from government control but also free from monopolisation.

The problem with this thinking is that we would never submit to Communism, we live in a world consumed by materialism over quality of life. Therefore you can assume we must now rely on market forces. On capitalist economics to rescue us and create a sustainable global economy.

The problem with this, however, is that we already know that capitalism doesn't create equality. or does it?

Could it be possible that the tools we class as our steps of fairness actually crowd out equality. Could it be that free health care for all halts aspirational development. That the welfare state has now served its time and we need to look to fair open market privatisation.

We can clearly see that it isn't working perfectly in areas such as Energy and Media, but we overlook one thing. We are now in possession of more power than ever before. Through the internet we can communicate across the globe, do business across the globe, but we are also reengaging with our communities. We can produce our own market forces, create our own competition.

Imagine a world where micro and small businesses deliver growth. That is where we need to be heading and to get there we need to innovate.

Monday 3 October 2011

Is the Green Revolution just Pea Soup

I have been happily talking about the need for a radical shift towards a low carbon society. A greener and fairer society.

This is something I have believed in for as long as I can remember? A world that lives within it's own means and provides for all, regardless of race, creed, colour or status.

Recently the more I read the more I see the immoral taking control of this Green Revolution. Investors and cowboys making quick bucks from an emerging market.

We need to be sure what we want? If we want long term change for all, we need to step back and look at how we go about it. If each community starts to embrace this idea we can protect against the corrupt world we have now. Failing to do so will see the power held by fewer and fewer people for the detriment of more and more.

Let's get fairer and not let the cash cow cloud the reality.