W.-Robert Needham Professor Emeritus Department of Economics University of Waterloo Home Tel: 519-578-4143 http://economics.uwaterloo.ca/fac-needham.html The dominant consideration in our economic system is not what people want, either as consumers or workers, but what people can afford or be persuaded to buy, and what they can be persuaded by force of circumstance to do for money, as a job. To put the matter another way, the modern economy is driven, not by the aggregate desires of what people want out of the economy, but by what the economy can get out of them. The only fitting word for this is slavery. Michael Rowbotham, The Grip of Death: A Study of Modern Money, Debt Slavery and Destructive Economics, (Charlbury: Jon Carpenter Publishing, 1998), 73. Emphasis added. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
