The Economy As a Moral Instruction Manual
What we reward, we get more of; extraction, hoarding, pollution, and all.
A reader raised a fair objection to my essay “The Economy of The Burning Planet,” and I think it deserves more than a comment-section answer.
The objection was this: I was very specific about the abuses and very general about the fix. If the poor suddenly became wealthy and powerful, wouldn’t they do the same thing? Isn’t the flaw endemic to mankind? And can anyone name a period in human history when wealth and power were evenly distributed and there were no poor?
