Do you love the economics that you see today?
That you learned and crammed a while back?
The same economics that has all these illustrations and explanations about how “money” gets tossed around
The same economics that was probably taught to you, in school?
Do you love these economics that never pass on a moment to talk about the “opportunity cost” and “alternative….”?
Yeah….those economics that “pit” us against “each other” in the name of “cut-throating”?
The same economics that places the “political economy” over every other economy out there!
Do you ever get to question how this economics came about?
I, for one, do!
I was doing some reading here and it said that economics is “a branch of social science that deals with the production and distribution and consumption of goods and services and their management”.
Hhhhaaaaa….I thought social science was better than this….never mind me.
In my mind, I thought that for this “branch” of social science to work properly,
The human beings involved at every stage of it have to be accounted for
And catered for, as well.
Of late, I don’t believe the human beings are even seen in this science!
It feels like everybody is in for themselves.
Take a good look at the production…..where we come up with all these ideas into actual goods and services.
Do we ever get to know what goes inside there?
The goods and services we enjoy never come with writings on them sharing how “all this came to be”, do they?
Hhhmmmm….I am forced to wonder… “if I am to take this good and service, am I risking the life of another human being in the process?”
The story doesn’t change much for distribution, as well.
As we speak right now, do you know that there is somebody out there that is not allowed to have a toilet-break on the job?
Do you honestly believe this person is enjoying these economics?
I don’t think so!!!
Now, look at our consumption….more specifically, the quality of what we are consuming.
I don’t know how things were in the past but as of today and now, everyone is in a rush for having the most and not just enough for what they need.
Sadly, even the quantity we are in a rush for comes with a lot of sub-standards in it.
We wouldn’t be accepting it but hey, here we are with our economics, right?
Don’t even get me started on how irresponsible and careless we have become as we consume all these products and services!
Do you have any suggestions on how we can change this?
I do have one….let’s change the name of these economics to “ECONOMPATHY”…combining the word “economics” since we wont easily be dropping it, I know with “empathy” since we all can use more of it, yeah?
What do you think?
Oh gosh yes, you said it. WE NEED MORE EMPATHY in this world. MUCH MORE!!
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This is a big topic that is certainly evolving quickly during the current conditions. I think we need more empathy everywhere and with the economic conditions we face, there more than anywhere!
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you are absolutely right. we need more empathy in so many areas of our lives.
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Really, really important points you’ve made here. There is an amazing lack of empathy in our world and it always seems politics and the economy overtake anything humanity related. But humans are running the damn thing. That’s the major gag!
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Empathy in economics is far and few. people and businesses are money hungry. I do not ever forsee this to change.
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Unfortunately, I feel like the economy is always going to be about moving goods and not about the people behind it. The powers that be don’t care about the people as a whole and the more they can keep us down and fighting each other instead of them, the more power they will have. We have all been forced to fall for their crap.
😌😌 we can still rebel!!
I love your concept behind econompathy. Capitalism is a huge problem and it’s about time we start putting people before profits.
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Really important points you’ve made here. There is a lack of empathy in our world and it always seems politics and the economy overtake humanity.
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Empathy is without a DOUBT, something we need more of in this world.
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Well, people only sympathise. Empathy is really needed but do people really care? Or do they undestand?
😳😳 good question!!!
I could not agree wit you more, I literally just said to someone yesterday about being empathetic x
Aaaahhhhh….that’s good to know
Thank you for sharing these insights and I agree with you that we need empathy in our life choices and decisions. The term econompathy is something that we can seriously consider.
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There is a lack of empathy in our world or people don’t really care about being empathetic.
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This is the first time I heard about the term “Econompathy”. I hope we can use it more often and practice it.
😉😉 that is the plan!
It is another excellent article on your blog. Empathy is very important! But honestly, I don’t see how we can change.
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I couldn’t agree more! The world needs more empathy. The selfish time we are currently living in can be so depressing. #ChooseLove
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I didn’t have that question for a long time but it’s interesting to know about it though. Learning about the econmny.
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I believe empathy and maturity both have disappeared from our world. Most people tend to loose patience
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It’s good that these things are coming to light now because like you said we don’t even think about it sometimes. Now we will and hopefully things will continue to change for the better. Light is the first step and we can see it now.
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