Unions
The current flap-up over government employee unions, as seen in Wisconsin and Indiana, illustrates the ineffectiveness of current economics to deal with real issues on the ground. The raise-or-cut paradigm is no way to go about running a society, composed of real people with real needs. This is the failure of current economic models, which inform political and government policies, as well as the position of labor unions.
"The science of economics is over 200 years old and it first developed as a theoretical justification for capitalism. Its major branches have either explicitly supported or opposed capitalist values, exemplified by classical and neo-classical schools of economic thought and Marxism respectively." Jayanta Kumar, "Capitalism, Marxism and Neo-humanist Economics"
Unions still operate with an organizational version of PTSD, rooted in the brutal and murderous reaction of early 20th century capitalists to their evolution. Violence of the sort practiced on both sides of the development of unions leads to a cycle of grudge matches, not rational negotiation. Neo-cons and Libertarians today represent a return to unbridled capitalism, which led to the development of unions in self-defensive reaction. Public employee unions today are infected with the greed of the elites they once despised. Their demands threaten to bankrupt average citizens whose taxes can no longer support the cost of union pensions and benefits.
"The essential link between neo-humanism and economics is that neo-humanism provides an ethical framework and value system within which all economic activity can be directly related to human welfare. The major schools of economic thought, whether capitalist or Marxist, are based upon materialist values and vested interests, which prevent them actuating the fullest possibilities of human welfare." J. Kumar
Think of it: Economic decisions based on human need, instead of human greed or idealistic domination of humans. Has it really taken the human species tens of thousands of years to get back to this humanist concept? The ongoing choice of human greed or idealistic domination over holistically scientific rationality, fed by population pressures and a natural competitiveness for resources, could jeopardize the ecological survival of the human species or, at the very least, the cumulative advancements of the human species.
"The science of economics is over 200 years old and it first developed as a theoretical justification for capitalism. Its major branches have either explicitly supported or opposed capitalist values, exemplified by classical and neo-classical schools of economic thought and Marxism respectively." Jayanta Kumar, "Capitalism, Marxism and Neo-humanist Economics"Unions still operate with an organizational version of PTSD, rooted in the brutal and murderous reaction of early 20th century capitalists to their evolution. Violence of the sort practiced on both sides of the development of unions leads to a cycle of grudge matches, not rational negotiation. Neo-cons and Libertarians today represent a return to unbridled capitalism, which led to the development of unions in self-defensive reaction. Public employee unions today are infected with the greed of the elites they once despised. Their demands threaten to bankrupt average citizens whose taxes can no longer support the cost of union pensions and benefits.
"The essential link between neo-humanism and economics is that neo-humanism provides an ethical framework and value system within which all economic activity can be directly related to human welfare. The major schools of economic thought, whether capitalist or Marxist, are based upon materialist values and vested interests, which prevent them actuating the fullest possibilities of human welfare." J. Kumar
Think of it: Economic decisions based on human need, instead of human greed or idealistic domination of humans. Has it really taken the human species tens of thousands of years to get back to this humanist concept? The ongoing choice of human greed or idealistic domination over holistically scientific rationality, fed by population pressures and a natural competitiveness for resources, could jeopardize the ecological survival of the human species or, at the very least, the cumulative advancements of the human species.
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