Saturday, 28 March 2020
One World social economy via pandemic? Towards the common better.
It has been the case throughout modern history that catastrophes whether political, like world wars, environmental, like global warming, or biological, like pandemics, are what have forced governments in the "free market" world to do what it is in the best interests of all to do: implement policies and practices that act on the fact that in our industrial and post-industrial worlds we are more connected than ever before. What we do affects others and they in turn affect us back. So, inclusion is the only logical and fair basic policy. Exclusion costs lives and reduces optimal returns for all. If we are one world than it is in everybody's interest ultimately to act in the interests of the many rather than narrow jurisdictions. Guaranteed incomes, as well as education and healthcare for all are the key enacting mechanisms, as has already been proven in several regions, but is still not universal. Pandemics make this point in a brutally clear way. Hang together or die separately is the question for all and there is only one answer: the social economy supported by TorontotheBetter, where all, both private and public, individuals and groups, act, in their own ways, for "the common better." Will the lessons learned continue as standard practice when the pandemic subsides? This is where visionary social enterprise and social policy must engage to ensure they do.
# posted by Taodhg @ 7:24 am 
