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Harry Pollard
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Sent: Friday, November 05, 1999 5:14 AM
Subject: Deeper Places (Was: Earned !! ?? )
> Dear Co-operators and friends, all,
>
> In response to:
>
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> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (.brian.)
>
>
> >Terry Leahy (Chair, Tesco) earned �671,000 in 1998 (Tesco is one
of
> the UK's largest supermarket chains.)
>
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>
> I wrote:
>
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>
> !!!!!!! Earned ??????
>
> Or got ??????
>
> It was the night-shift (and etc) who did the earning.
>
> (And what of the shareholders cut ?? )
>
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>
> And, then,
>
> Carl wrote as below.:
>
> >>
> >miaow! ;-)
> >
>
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>
> And, so:
>
> I now write:
>
> Firstly - thanks to Carl for this prompting.
>
> Secondly, I accept that my comments, above, might appear as The Politics
of
> Envy.
>
> I hope, however, to take this to deeper places:
>
> a) Ineqality is bad for the physical, mental and spiritual health of *all*
> the members of a society (check the first and last paragraphs of Richard
> Wilkinson's 'Unhealthy Societies')
>
> b) The (unthinking?) pressure creating inequality is *the* automatic
process
> of capitalism - what Vaclav Havel calls "auto-totality" - a
totalitarianism
> where there is no physical dictator (see Sharif Abdullah's, recent,
> 'Creating
> a World Theat Works For All.')
>
> c) This "auto-totality" is, for me, the combination of capitalism's two
> linked drivers:
>
> firstly, wealth concentration
>
> and, then,
>
> further use of the profits that, then, flow from ownership of that
> concentration
>
> (These form the two components of power concentration) that, *when put
> together* is so frightening about
> capitalism - the "auto-totality of whic Vaclav Havel speaks.)
>
> Thus, we *must,* as co-operators, work to dissolve away the *two* elements
> of
> power concentration - the mechanisms by which wealth is concentrated *and*
> also
> the further use to which those concentrations are put.
>
> In other words, our task is to re-mutualise ownership of land and
productive
> resources, which we *can do,* peacefully, by returning money to its proper
> use
> as a *shared* measuring device (see Alan Watts, quoted in the first
chapter
> - The
> Absurdity of it all - in Peter Lang's 'LETs Work: Rebuilding the Local
> Economy.')
>
> Thanks, again, Carl !
>
> Co-op-ly hugs, to, for and from, all,
>
> j
>
> ********************
>
> BTWs:
>
> The best book I know on power is Ken Galbraith's 'The Anatomy of
Power.'
>
> And,
>
> All this is the (??!!) reasoning for our Campaign for Interest-Free
> Money,
> since taking hold of money's power is *the* route to remutualising the
other
> two.
>
> More hugs !!
>
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>
