poverty generates hostility and anger, and […] peace is impossible where poverty exists.
Let’s just repeat Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammed Yunus’ words for emphasis, shall we?
poverty generates hostility and anger, and […] peace is impossible where poverty exists
People who know that they can feed/educate their families and feel that they are performing useful work tend to be much less interested in joining gangs/militias/insurrectionists and fucking other people’s shit up. Why does the cult of economic rationalism and its acolytes in elected office largely refuse to recognise this simple truth?
Categories: ethics & philosophy, Sociology
Because they make lots and lots of money out of selling guns to the angry poor or the people who they are fighting. Just ask Halliburton – “we make money out of anarchy”