Each discussion group is on-going. The on-line library includes many publications that are or have been under active discussion. Our goal is to develop policies, practices, implementation strategies and mechanisms to facilitate the creation of sound, practical means for local empowerment and economic self-sufficiency globally. Our current method is to expand the COG network to include all major organizations and policy makers concerned with those goals in working groups to develop the means to those ends. Capital concentration is increasing.
Technology allows fewer workers to produce ever-increasing quantities of goods.
A rising tide of productivity does not lift all ships, when low paid workers cannot afford to purchase the ever-increasing quantity of goods they produce. Corporations are no longer anchored to the countries that once determined the rules for corporate relations to social needs. Global companies are racing against each other to the lowest social wage. Corporate investment in developing countries brings previously unavailable resources and opportunities. Most of the world s nation-states now embrace the concept of political democracy, however flawed their implementation of it may be.