Day 60: How Far can We Stretch our Customers? - Part 3

For context, please read: Day 58: How Far can We Stretch our Customers? - Part 1 and Day 59: How Far can We Stretch our Customers? - Part 2.

I commit myself to creating a world where the interaction between people is open and transparent, so that fear of being stabbed in the back does not exist and in turn does not motivate us to stab someone else in the back.

I commit myself to stop participating in the belief that fucking someone over is a sign of power and grandeur, but realise that it is a sign that I have psychological problems that I urgently need to take on, because I am apparently unable to see myself as equal and one to all and everyone around me - and thus unable to be trusted with anything.

 I commit myself to stop taking pleasure in the pain of others.

I commit myself to stop acting like a character built on top of and from lies - presenting myself like someone I am not - but instead make my hands dirty and dig into the darkness that is me, where I have hidden all my secret thoughts, feelings and emotions and I take them on, one by one, with writing, self-forgiveness, breath and corrective action - until who I am within and who I am without are equal and one and I can trust myself to be self-honest in every single moment.

I commit myself to stop the cycle of the sins of the Fathers by no longer simply regurgitating the information of how economics works and should work - that was poured down my throat - to the next generation - but instead, take responsibility within my position of understanding and use my common sense in exposing what our economic system really is, how it affects people, people's lives and how it destroys the world - so that the next generation may be better prepared to face the consequences that we have created in our ignorance and spitefulness and continue to develop real solutions to bring about real living.

I commit myself to ensure that the economic system where prices and unequal income determine who gets what is abolished and that any similar system can never be re-established - because it is a direct violation of human rights - and a crime against life.

I commit myself to stop abdicating responsibility from my actions towards the rules of the game of economics - because it's not okay to be an asshole just because everyone else is and because the game says it's okay - I instead stand up and take responsibility for my thoughts, words and deeds in every moment - allowing myself to be the change that is necessary to change the game as a whole.

I commit myself to stop educating the next generation into how to be mean and nasty fuckers who try to continuously win, win, win without caring that it means others must lose, lose, lose - and therefore start with taking responsibility within myself and my own life, so that I can be a living example who stands by her word.

Day 47: The Economic Problem - Part 2

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have created an economic system which causes problems – and then make these problems one of the basic principles of economics

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the ‘economic problem’ is not really a problem, and not even an economic one – but a human problem as we’ve designed the economic system in our image and likeness – and since we’ve decided that wants are more important than needs, and want to try and satisfy unlimited wants with limited resources – we are the cause of the problem as we decided that we’d rather have an unsustainable economic system which will only work out right for a few – than a sustainable economic system which works out for everyone

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the ‘economic problem’ has only surfaced because we are more interested in entertaining ourselves with the various ways in which we could satisfy our desires – where the problem arises because of the simplistic reality that we cannot have what we want all the time, because our wants are unrealistic – and so we trouble ourselves over what desire to satisfy and the ‘conflict’ involved within this – while this conflict is not relevant in any way whatsoever as what is Best for All Life is in no way being considered – and so from the point on where economics as established that wants are valued over needs, everything else built upon this point becomes entirely and utterly useless and irrelevant – since we’ve accepted an unsound foundation for our current economic system and so everything which follows from that foundation is flawed and will only spiral out into further unsustainability and the inevitable demise and end of the entire system itself

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have created an economic system which entertains itself by looking at value through what has been apparently ‘sacrificed’ as those ‘wants’ which you decided not to satisfy for the sake of the desire you did satisfy – how is this relevant in any way whatsoever when 24 000 children die a day from poverty and starvation? What value does their sacrifice bring to this world?

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to have created an economic system which does not serve reality as it is more concerned with some metaphysical plane of satisfying wants and desires and the costs/sacrifices involved within satisfying or not satisfying particular desires and then deriving some form of value from that – while the physical aspect of reality is being ignored and neglected completely – where we end up with half the population living in misery because we thought that giving economics a primarily metaphysical dimension as being concerned with satisfying unlimited human wants was so much more exciting than having an economic theory / system which focuses on the physical reality and ensuring that everyone’s basic physical needs are taken care of

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that all economic problems in the world would be solved if we all aligned our wants and desires to what is Best for All --- as then we would not have to deal with competing choices and competing self-interests as there would only be One interest as that which is Best for All Life, and so we’d actually for the first time have an effective and efficient economic system