How to Start Prioritizing People Over Products and Creativity Over Consumption
Great content from Brain Picker on Buddhist Economics on the subject of prioritizing educating, elevating, and enlightening people to create compassionate and creative economies from theorist E.F. Shumaucher.
“While the materialist is mainly interested in goods, the Buddhist is mainly interested in liberation. But Buddhism is “The Middle Way” and therefore in no way antagonistic to physical well-being. It is not wealth that stands in the way of liberation but the attachment to wealth; not the enjoyment of pleasurable things but the craving for them. The keynote of Buddhist economics, therefore, is simplicity and non-violence. From an economist’s point of view, the marvel of the Buddhist way of life is the utter rationality of its pattern — amazingly small means leading to extraordinarily satisfactory results.”
