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The Friend of 17 October was great! But the only commentator who really grasped the nettle was James Wells-Bruges: ‘fundamental change to the global economy is essential…’ Whereas the ‘average Briton’ today lives on about eighty dollars a day, 841 million people, or seventeen per cent of humankind outside China (970 million including China) are in dire poverty on less than a dollar a day Sixty per cent (3,051 million people outside China, 3,180 million including China) have no more than 39 dollars a day and this is getting worse according to Global Health Watch There is something deeply wrong with a global economic system which allows this In March 2008 Susan George, the political economist, quoted Adam Smith: ‘All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems, in every age, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind’ She also asked: ‘Should water be subject to the laws of the market? Health? Education? Public services? Basic foodstuffs? Energy?’ Fundamental change is indeed essential – perhaps even to our Quaker witness
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