THE FUTURE OF MONEY Bernard A. Lietaer - library.uniteddiversity ...

class, no matter how powerful his or her position within the
corporation, has become expendable - as growing numbers of top
executives are learning. As corporations gain in autonomous
institutional power and become more detached from people and
place, the human interest and the corporate interests increasingly
diverge. It is almost as though we were being invaded by alien beings
intent on colonising the planet, reducing us to serfs, and then
excluding as many of us as possible.'
· Ian Angell, Professor of Information Systems at the London School
of Economics, Mites in the The Independent: 'The main problem of the
future will be the glut of unnecessary people who will be irrelevant
to the needs of corporations, and therefore will be uneducated,
untrained, ageing and resentful. The slow redistribution of wealth to
which we became accustomed after World War II is already rapidly
reversed, so the future is one of inequality. We are entering an age of
hopelessness, an age of resentment, an age of rage. The world
belongs already to the global corporation. The nation state is now
desperately sick.'
. 'Peter Montague, from the Environmental Research Foundation
(Annapolis, Maryland) says: 'The corporations pretty much
determine all the basics of modem life, just as the Church did in the
Middle Ages. Small corporate elite’s pretty much determine what
most of us will read; what we will see in theatres and on TV; what
subjects will become public issues permissible for discussion and
debate; what ideas our children will absorb in the classroom; how
our food and fiber will be grown, processed and marketed; what
consumer products will be made by what technologies using what
raw materials; whether we will have widely available, affordable
health care; how work will be defined, organised, and compensated;
what forms of energy will be available to us; how much toxic
contamination will be present in our air, water, soil and food; who