Purpose: The section on Economic Democracy or Corporate Hegemony develops out of the first section on Money and Democracy, which clearly established that in our wealth-dominated political system, money is power. This section on economics investigates where the economic system came from, how the economic system works, and how the unseen costs of the economy are causing the biggest problems faced by humans today. This section then looks at how we can develop an economic system that accounts for the unseen costs of the current system and build a healthy and happy future for both people and planet.
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​Paradigm: Classical economic theory says that we can be as greedy as we want and an invisible hand will manage human activities and nature to maximize the happiness and health of all. The reality, however, is that the invisible hand is a hoax and a system run on greed depletes our natural resources, destroys our natural system, and subjects people to an alienating wage and production system that has been decreasing happiness for the past half century.