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If each of us is contained in the other, how can we compete against
each other when we are, in effect, competing against ourselves?
It would seem that cooperation, not competition, would make a more
accurate form of economic organization, one that more accurately
reflects our essential integration. How can a labor boss condemn
the greed of the factory owner without condemning himself? And how
can the owner resent the wage and benefit demands of his employees
without recognizing that their demands are actually his? Again,
working together, both within a business and between businesses
might be a more effective and logical way of doing business. A Darwinian
economic survival of the fittest may mean that we are just battling
and fighting against ourselves. Clawing to the top may mean climbing
over our own corpses.
1. The National Coalition for Dialog and Deliberation. www.thataway.org
See its Happenings page for several sections on these issues.
2. demos-usa.org
3. www.newsociety.com
On building a sustainable world.
4. www.hazelhenderson.com
A noted economist emphasizes
networking and cooperation.
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