I've been contemplating the greatness of the wealth we live in, along with the complaints of poverty. I've also been contemplating the complaints about fairness. The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer. The rich don't pay their fair share. Yet, when I look at the wealth around me, all I see is the … Continue reading Of Wealth and Fairness
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Should we encourage the rising tide or sink the biggest boats?
My ethics text book, Organizational Ethics: A Practical Approach by Craig E. Johnson, talks in the last chapter about the dangers of globalization. In the chapter he talks about how the benefits of living in a global economy are obvious, but the what is hidden is the downside. I would like to challenge him, somewhat. Seems … Continue reading Should we encourage the rising tide or sink the biggest boats?
Solidarity with the poor
In the opening of Chapter 11 of Class Matters, Hook makes one of those common, but also logically flawed uses of words. Poor and poverty are not the same thing. To go from “the poor will always be with us” as the words of Jesus, to talking about poverty is to cloud an issue that … Continue reading Solidarity with the poor
Contrasting quotes — Good intentions awry
Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings. --Nelson Mandela There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want, merely because you think it would be good for him. --Robert A. Heinlein … Continue reading Contrasting quotes — Good intentions awry
At The Rainbow 