Although we will discuss the objectives of the financial and economic systems in greater depth during the fourth round of debate, we would like each participant to indicate to what degree each one of the following objectives can be shared by all the participants:
01. The current economic model must be reconsidered, for it is based on infinite growth, the indiscriminate use of natural resources, the privatization of common goods (such as water, air, biodiversity), consumption (or desire for consumption) as a mode of living based on the obsession of having and a lifestyle that relies on the premature discarding of unnecessary personal objects, it is not only unfair but also unsustainable, and its dangers for mankind will soon be irreversible.
Comments (0)02. It is necessary to affirm and make concrete the right of peoples against the right of business, which requires a fundamental change in the philosophy of international financial and commercial organisations.03. Instead of a reductionist approach to economy that benefits small minorities and creates huge disparities in wealth, we want an economy that works for the majority of the people.04. To promote a production oriented towards the majority of the population, with the use of public instruments. This is in opposition to the present model of development favouring the spectacular development of only 20% of the population. Capitalist logic develops the purchasing power of the rich minority to absorb the production of sophisticated goods and contribute to capital accumulation.05. Companies cannot easily follow ‘neo-liberal economic thought’ if they pay attention to the impacts of their corporate decisions over worker’s mental health and nature.06. To promote the dominance of the Value of Use over the Value of Change.07. To introduce qualitative elements into economic calculations, like well-being, quality of life, healthy environment, food security, and so on. Decisions would be quite different if such elements were taken into account in the cost estimates of production and exchange.08. To limit the influence of financial capital by the taxation of international movement (the Tobin tax), the suppression of fiscal havens and bank secrecy, and the abolition of the external debt of the Southern nations.
Es imprescindible y urgente redefinir no sólo el sistema financiero sino las funciones del dinero y elimnar de vez su aspecto de mercancía, gracias a su valor de reserva. O sea, no se puede obviar una redefinición del dinero mismo, porque todas las propuestas arriba son paliativas y corresponden a una aceptación y complicidad con el dinero "tal como existe". Para ello que visibilizar las iniciativas existentes de monedas complementarias (numerosas y muy distintas= y multiplicar sistemas operativos sociales que favorezcan la inteligencia y producción colectivas, con el apoyo de la web2.0 y las generaciones más jóvenes, que lo están haciendo imperceptiblemente y sin consciencia de ello. 09. To abolish patents in their present-day form and to adopt the royalty system to avoid the monopoly of the transnational enterprises.10. To re-evaluate enterprises as places of common labour with a social function and not as a source of profit for shareholders.
why not both? if it can be proven they are really incompatible, OK, but it seems the problem is not the profit per se, but a too high level of profit extracted. Some profit is always necessary to survive and continue, just as in a primitive agricultural system, the extra grain which is profit is needed to sow the next year.11. To recognise and re-evaluate jobs not recognised as work (women at home) or devalued (social services, health services) and to create jobs in qualitative sectors (betterment of the quality of life, personal services, etc.)12. To organise a generalised system of social welfare under public supervision.13. To re-evaluate public services as services to the community and not as attention to clients.14. We want a development aid that focuses on a responsible, sustainable and ethical global cooperation, that influences business negotiations and offers them an appropriate context for its own application.Por una ayuda al desarrollo que repose en una cooperación mundial sostenible, responsable y ética, que influya en las negociaciones comerciales y las inscriba en un contexto apropiado para su aplicación.
15. To eradicate poverty and exclusion among the most disadvantaged and those who are objects of discrimination.16. To guarantee the security of self-sufficiency, or communal access to life's basic needs (food, health, energy, housing, education, community, etc.), instead of focusing on the commercial criterias of specialization, competence and speculation.
i dont know if specialisation and competition are per se bad to secure the basic needs, in fact they are probably necessary to do so. Otherwise just to use an example, how to provide healthcare if some people are not specialised as nurses and doctors? same applies to everything else, and competition is needed to improve efficiency. Same exists in nature and life itself evolved and branched out infinitely by fierce competition and specialisation for ressources, down to the trillions of microbes all over and inside our bodies, which are so specialised that the microbe colonies can be different from teeth to teeth, or even on different sides of the same tooth!17. To guarantee the universal right of all individuals and communities to contribute with creative work to the world economic system, without compromizing their culture and obtaining the satisfaction of the needs of all, thus surpassing competitiveness in terms of monetary profit.18. To question the value of money, nowadays highly speculative and, in reality, lacking any value save that obtained through armed imposition.19. To underline the value of creative work. To consider it a return to the most elementary nature of humankind, to find a balance between the rural and the urban, the industry and the environment, manual and conceptual artifacts, our interaction with things and with people, etc. To see work as a creative occupation rather than the mechanical subordination that belongs to robots.20. To put an end to monopolies and the immense abuse of private property.21. A disconnection of the South, with greater South-to-South commercial exchanges and less political dependence on the North, affirming its own beliefs and economic positions in contrast to the North's, reinforcing its technological and productive national capacities and distancing itself from globalization.22. To evaluate the laws, regulations and politics of sovereign States with indicators that are different from GDP, ones that include the well-being of the population and the carbon footprint.You can also evaluate:
1.8.General objectives of the scientific, educational, cultural and communicative systems
General comments
As much as it is possible to attain the financial inclusion of all including inclusive development. The financial and economic objectives are to be set that are achievable.
Written by S.Islam at 16 / 08 / 2010
We believe that if we want a healthy world economy has to be removed from the manifestations of poverty and not to drain resources
Written by dr. bakhita at 26 / 12 / 2010
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