Wednesday, December 23, 2009

High Morales

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10954.shtml

AMY GOODMAN: How would you do that? How would you end capitalism?

PRESIDENT EVO MORALES: [translated] It’s changing economic policies, ending luxury, consumerism. It’s ending the struggle to—or this searching for living better. Living better is to exploit human beings. It’s plundering natural resources. It’s egoism and individualism. Therefore, in those promises of capitalism, there is no solidarity or complementarity. There’s no reciprocity. So that’s why we’re trying to think about other ways of living lives and living well, not living better. Not living better. Living better is always at someone else’s expense. Living better is at the expense of destroying the environment.

1 comment:

northshorewoman said...

great comment to excerpt. thank you for posting. Reading it after your later post on the 1.99 buffet, really reminds me of how much waste and gluttony we in North America practice.