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About Me
- equa yona(Big Bear)
- e-qua yona, Cherokee for 'big bear' is the only nick name I've ever had, at least one I liked. One of my favorite ever students called me that when I taught for the Eastern Band Cherokee. It is Mato Tanka in Lakota. I have lived a nomadic life and have enjoyed most of it so far. Seeking balance with the universe or great mystery is what life oughta be about.
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Good article.
I think the notion that the economy and profits _have_ to go up is as much to blame as deregulation. When I was in school, all our projections assumed infinite growth and it was very difficult for me to grasp that concept since the earth's resources are finite. But the classes in my business school weren't set up to address that problem...and I don't think my school was unique in that manner.
IIRC, India resisted opening up its trade borders to the outside world in part I think based on Gandhian principles of self-sufficiency. But the middle class felt that it was ensuring a slow growth on the part of the Indian economy. One of the presidents who opened up the borders is credited with bringing back the country from the edge of bankruptcy which was apparently due to IMF loans.
And I really dislike this notion of a "free market" It isn't a free market. If it was, there wouldn't be some governing body enforcing the rules (patents for eg.) of the so called free market.
Glad you liked it. Yes, infinite growth, what a concept. World bloat, at least until someone stabs the old knife of reality into it.
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