Empty Talk about Economic Development

Dear friends,

In Alaska, the entire state not just one city, for example gives several thousands of dollars to the family of each newborn child. Basically, it’s nothing short of a bribe to get people to live in that cold place. Yet, where is the economic development there and what is economic development?… Almost everyone works either on a military base or for some business that is directly connected to a military base.

Ultimately, the end result of economic development should be human, not corporate. In other words, genuine economic development will ensure that each child upon reaching adulthood will be independent, self-sufficient yet cooperative, thoughtful, and competent, while being a loving and caring person.

Moreover, in a nation that bases its legitimacy on its threat capacity through the police and military, not the vote, the onus is on the corporate rulers and their lackey politicians to not only control and maintain their wealth- holding status with its accumulation process, but to increase its magnitude. Considering that, empty talk about changing inequality remains just that. Capitalism must go!

G. Djata Bumpus