A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats
Let’s support small together
Recently I was queuing in a farmers’ market near where I live, when I noticed a sticker that someone had put on a post reading “Let’s support small together”, and thought: “what a great philosophy”.
The sticker was presumably put there as a reminder that we can all do much to support small local traders, and help real people, who live in our own community, rather than supermarkets who cream off the profits to fund the extravagant lifestyles of the CEO, or pay dividends to anonymous shareholders, who have no interest in where we live.
One of the biggest problems of capitalism, is that we don’t have a maximum cap on individual wealth — we have a minimum wage, why not a maximum wealth? Did you know that eight men own as much wealth as four billion of the world’s population? Just think how different the lives of the poorest billion would be if that wealth were shared out more fairly! Where did we as individuals and societies lose our moral compass to the extent that we allow this to continue?
All in the same race — but make sure everyone wins
