Well budget day has been and gone, and unsurprisingly, nothing has really changed. Small things have, but nothing of consequence.
The biggest problem we face on earth is the idea that growth is more important than anything else, and economic growth remained the unquestionable centre of yesterday’s announcements. At the Happy City Initiative, we believe the best thing for business is the same thing that’s best for people, and that is the prospect of long term prosperity. Annual growth forever is an utterly destructive nonsense that will surely rip apart both people and planet.
The resources do not exist for this kind of fantasy, and anyway, if we re-directed our efforts towards better measures of prosperity, we’ll find plenty to do that enhances life more meaningfully than simply selling more stuff.
Let’s stop confusing our ideas about Happiness. Selling more stuff to get richer so I can buy more things that make me happy is all about Shortwave Happiness. It doesn’t last.
Developing our sense of community, care for the places we live and how we live in them are the ingredients of Longwave Happiness. This CAN last.
We believe there’s heart-felt truth in the desire for sustainability and social cohesion, but these things cannot, and will not become a reality until the banking systems have been reformed in favour of service to the public, and the notion of growth as our ultimate goal has been dropped.
So we’re here to stand for a new, practical and applied form of people-friendly economy that works in the interests of all of us. We created the Happy City Initiative to name the ‘Elephant in the room’, to help people see and act on an alternative vision, and to help provide the skills which make us all masters of our own economy. Let’s not forget the elephant of growth REQUIRES our unhappiness to feed itself. If we become content with who we are and what we have, our interest in consumption fades.
Call us if you’d like to focus your team on the skills which promote long term prosperity, are good for business, good for people, and good for the planet.
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