Blogging For The Eradication of Poverty – The Cost of Food
October 17th, 2008 by SocProf and tagged Development, Economy, Environment, Fair Trade, food, Globalization, Poverty, Social Inequalities, Social Stratification, Structural Violence, Sustainability
Do yourself a favor and go read this outstanding special report:
Posted in Development, Economy, Environment, Fair Trade, Globalization, Population, Poverty, Social Inequalities, Social Stratification, Structural Violence, Sustainability | 3 Comments »
October 18th, 2008 at 7:00 am
Truly sad
Thanks for sharing this!
But, what social goals exist within production in a capitalist economy for the benefit of humanity? Easy — None– with the exception of capital accumulation and profit. Thus, I think we have to change or perhaps even completely alter the social goals of productions in order to get a completely different outcome. If you do not change the purpose and goal of production, I think we will continue to hear the same horrible stories for decades to come.AI think we have to finally decide that banning poverty and starvation would be a social goal integrated into the means of production , and to make it a social goal of society not to have food used as a political weapon and financial resources.
http://www.basicincome.org/bien/
Some of this is discussion fits perfectly into this discussion,
Let me know what you think…
MB
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October 18th, 2008 at 7:03 am
Second Follow up:
We cannot simply blog ourselves out of poverty/ or hope for the eradication of poverty.Rather, we have to produce ourselves out of the poverty
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October 18th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
Well. I’m not arrogant enough to think that blogging can actually have a major impact beyond sharing information. At the end of the day, good ol’ fashion work is needed.
Regarding the goals of production, this is what Yunus is proposing with his social business model where the goal is to generate a valuable social product rather than profits.
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