Economic Inequality Revealed Through Quotes and Numbers
SEPARATION OF CHURCH, STATE AND BUSINESS – Continued
DAVID RALPH MACKERETH dmackereth@canimac.com
“The pandemic [Covid-19] is very quickly teaching us what’s
(just like spiritual folks), and of course operating within the
important: love, food, a safe and comfortable home, creativity
laws of the state. Robert B. Reich, in ‘Saving Capitalism’
and learning, connectedness, and being able to get out into
(2015), keeps us focused: “There can be no ‘free market’
nature. Shouldn’t those things be the pillars around which our
without government.” And from A. C. Grayling we are
societies are organized?” resilience.org
advised: “[…] the biggest single flaw in recent economic orthodoxy is the mantric belief that regulation interferes with
At Wikipedia.org we find, “The separation of church and state
the supposed innate self-adjusting wisdom of markets.” (1)
is a philosophic and jurisprudential concept for defining
There will need to be serious thought from the ‘People – The
political distance in the relationship between religious
99%’ on how to keep companies, and very wealthy people,
organizations and the nation state.” (Separation of Church
from having more than a One Person / One Vote effect on
and State) Since business has become the dominant force
state laws (currently an intolerable situation in many
supporting and influencing most, if not all, governments,
countries).
possibly it is time to move to the next step – separation of church, state and business. The Church can provide an
Clearly depicted by David M. Walker as comptroller general of
outlet for spiritual needs, the State can provide for welfare
the United States in 2007; “There’s something civil servants
needs and set laws, and Business can provide for physical
have that the private sector doesn’t. And that is the duty of
and recreational needs. The separation of church and state
loyalty to the greater good – the duty of loyalty to the collec-
works on the premise the state sets the laws on how a
tive best interest of all rather than the interest of a few.
society will operate, leaving the people to believe in whatever
Companies have duties of loyalty to their shareholders, not to
suits their fancy spiritually – of course, while still respecting
the country.” Furthermore, if we leave the control of our
state laws. Now, just adjusting the needle one more notch,
countries to the business folks, who may not address Climate
we can allow the business community to operate as they wish
Change from a humanity perspective: we could find the entire
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