The Revolutionary Socialist Network, Workers
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Human Stuff2NC -- Human ValueCapitalism causes money to become the purpose of our livesPadilla ’21 [Luis-Alberto; 2021; president of the board of the Guatemalan International Relations & Peace Research Institute (IRIPAZ), member of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA), former Secretary General of the Latin American Council on Peace Research (CLAIP), Director of the Diplomatic Academy, Former Vice Minister, former ambassador in Chile, former permanent representative to the United Nations at the Vienna International Centre, former ambassador to Austria, former ambassador to the Russian Federation, former ambassador to the Netherlands, permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, professor of the Seminar of World Geopolitics at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Catholic University Rafael Landivar (URL) of Guatemala; Sustainable Development in the Anthropocene, “The Technological Paradigm,” Ch. 3.7, p. 120] SPark Therefore once a society follows the path of the technocratic paradigm - as Pope Francis says - it will be inexorably transformed into a technological society dedicated to values such as efficiency, expansion of power and control over nature, as had happened with industrialization phenomenon. Actually, this conception of technology functions in the same way as neoliberal mainstream economics (the so called invisible hand of the market, the individual permanent search for enrichment) and growth as the most obvious way to measure development. Hence, technology ceases to be an instrument and becomes the centre of our lives, which is analogous to viewing money as the main purpose of our lives. Normally one may believe that money is a neutral instrument of our objectives in life, but on closer examination it is clear that for a lot of people making money has become the main purpose of life. Even though there are clearly things money cannot buy (such as the recognition of others, or love and happiness), people do try to buy them constantly, with inevitably disappointing results. Those who base their whole lives on the acquisition of money have poor lives that usually corrupt and diminish people with this kind of belief. Like technology, money has implicit values, and basing a way of life on it is absolutely wrong.13 Download 2.09 Mb. Share with your friends:
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