24 November 2010

The essence of competitive culture is distrust

Free market economics extols competition as the basis for participating in the economy. Such a culture promotes the values of taking the most for oneself, of distrusting everyone. 
The essence of competitive culture is distrust. To believe that nothing is free, that everything has a price, that no-one does anything for nothing is to disqualify the possibility of caring and of gift giving, of beneficence, of higher values. 

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