We could learn lessons of love and prosperity from the Middle Ages. The Canadian economist John Kenneth Galbraith said that the profits banks make are obscene. It is obscene where money clusters in the hands only of the few, blighting the lives of the many. It is not productive or profitable in that way - except for a legacy of costly museums to pride like Versailles. Far more profitable has been the legacy of libraries of great learning preserved and treasured up for use for century upon century.
Books are a different economy - and productive for the soul.
People likewise are a different economy. Educate a woman in a Third World nation, which costs little to do, and the life expectancy rises, the infant mortality drops, far beyond what the monetary investment could ever have hoped to achieve. Balance the two webs productively of greed and charity, cruelty and mercy. Money is a language for power - to do ill or good. Erna Beck's Kenya Webring Page Kenya Webring This Kuzungukazunguka Kenya Webring site is owned by Julia Bolton Holloway .