Economic Crimes Against Humanity

Beautifully crafted article by Shoshana Zuboff describing the unspeakable suffering unleashed by the 'banality of evil' of those we entrusted with our economic welfare.  It ends with;

That in the crisis of 2009 the mounting evidence of fraud, conflicts of interest, indifference to suffering, repudiation of responsibility, and systemic absence of individual moral judgment produced an administrative economic massacre of such proportion that it constitutes an economic crime against humanity.

Note:  The author is famous in the ‘social, p2p world’ after writing a book called The Support Economy (2003/4) with co-author Jim Maxmin.  Amongst other things, the book foretells the failure of managerial capitalism (or the end of command-and-control).  Rather prescient given where we are right now.

'Winning by sharing' is a state of cooperation between individuals, companies and nation states where there is a continuous fair exchange of value as opposed to the prevailing nature of business and government that is predicated on the notion of "I win, you lose".

Too much, too soon?

Comments

[globalpalestine.blogspot.com]

Dear Leon and all,
this morning I got the link about your page through the yahoo-group fightingpeacefully. I am Palestinian and I do understand very much the need for the culture of sharing in all our life domains.
Yesterday I cam from Open-Translation-Conference in Amsterdam. There I had the idea about how can Translation change the wag we used to look on economics and open the way for sharing and participating.
http://ott09.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Translation_Projects_in_Participatory_Economics
I think we can change the way we used to know free market economics if we manage to develop mechanism to include as much people as possible in the decision making process and ownership !

Thanks for the good work!
Wael