July 3rd - New Evidence - Free Market Capitalism Isn't Good for Us!

 Back from my short break intending to begin looking at what is being written and said about how we can change direction and how people are changing their lives.
But, am having to put that on hold because I'm constantly being reminded that so much that's happening in the UK and in the world is resulting from the fact that capital's need for investment and growth, based on material consumption, takes priority over everything else. Not, I remind myself, to provide for basic material needs, but the 'stuff' which most of us have been led to see as essential for a 'successful' life
It's staggering that there is a new law in China compelling folk to go to visit their aged relatives.  Why is such a law necessary?  Because the community networks which were in place previously have been torn apart in the search for material growth. Millions of people have had to leave their homes and old folk to move to the massive cities to feed capital's need for labour.
Schools and health services in the UK are rapidly being handed over to private providers, not because they can provide a better service, but because the traditional avenues for investment, mainly in the manufacture of consumer goods, are drying up. Tax payers money will be siphoned off by companies investing in education and in health provision.