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Today I visited an extended family who lives under a adobe framemaker server 9.0 review bridge and whose young children beg from cars stuck in Jakarta traffic on that adobe framemaker server 9.0 review bridge.  The mother fishes trash out of the polluted river from her doorstep and sells what she can.   The father sells bottled water to commuters for a tiny profit margin.  The mother used to buy & sell rice, but the police charged her a “security fee” for adobe framemaker server 9.0 review her inventory and would take so much of the rice, she no adobe framemaker server 9.0 review longer earned any profit.  The youngest daughter Citra, was restless tonight because the adobe framemaker server 9.0 review family had to sell their old television set to pay for adobe framemaker server 9.0 review a months’ lodging they required when adobe framemaker server 9.0 review the floodwaters devoured their home during the rainy season last month.  So Citra went back out to the traffic to beg some more.  Citra is 6 years old.

After visiting for a while, I went back to my fancy apartment.  Incidentally a 3 minute walk to the other side of the bridge.  I went to our fancy gym and started running on the treadmill.   And started thinking.  Here I am, running really fast but going absolutely nowhere.  It sums up our society’s progress on reducing poverty - exerting lots of sweat but not moving one inch.

Then, like a bolt of lightning, my mind had a razor sharp focus for the next three hours on capitalism and its “efficiency”.  I couldn’t get it out of my head.  So here is my best effort at summarizing my thoughts:

Capitalism has adobe framemaker server 9.0 review emerged as the dominant force in most corners of the globe.  So there has to be something to it, right?  The key argument in its favor is its efficiency.  Capitalism is adobe framemaker server 9.0 review based on the premise of competition and therefore all things trend toward the adobe framemaker server 9.0 review most efficient in the markets.  Fair enough.  True enough.  Imperfections are rampant in these markets, but c’mon, capitalism seems to adobe framemaker server 9.0 review offer an opportunity for constant improvement and gains in efficiency.

That’s what I learned in Economics school.  But honestly, capitalism was invented by us, not divinely delivered to adobe framemaker server 9.0 review us, so there is likely room for improvement.  So my frustration with capitalism is in its inefficiency.  Capitalism seems to only be efficient in improving itself.  It doesn’t seem to help us become better as people.  It doesn’t seem to offer independence to us as people.

It also leaves a lot of people out of its equation entirely, which leads to abject poverty.  In my current job, I confront poverty on a daily basis.  Every time I see it, poverty makes me angry.  Not because I feel guilty.  Not because I feel helpless.  Because of wasted human potential. 

Wasted human potential is the inefficiency of capitalism. 

There are adobe framemaker server 9.0 review too many people, hungry for the dignity of work, who cannot find decent employment.  There are adobe framemaker server 9.0 review too many migrant workers who live for years away from their families in foreign cultures to adobe framemaker server 9.0 review earn enough money to send their children to school.  There are adobe framemaker server 9.0 review too many strangers raising our children while entire families work at jobs that adobe framemaker server 9.0 review do not maximize their potential anyway.  Is that efficient?  How many talents go undiscovered?  For those talents that are discovered, how many go unexplored?  How much room does capitalism leave for us to be people?  To be human?

Maximizing human potential.  This needs to be the new benchmark of efficiency for a society.  Artists — produce art and enrich our lives.  Engineers — design roads, bring access to adobe framemaker server 9.0 review clean drinking water and find ways to protect our planet.  Doctors — treat anyone who is sick to the best of your abilities.  Parents — be there for your children.  These are the things we take pride in doing.  And its fun when you are contributing to society using your talents!  We need to find a way to explore our potential.  It is the best way for us to forge a better world and lives full of satisfaction.

The question comes down to: where does society place its value?  Centuries ago in Italy, for 200 years, societies valued art.  So they produced a heck of a lot of it and give us things to visit in museums.  What will be the legacy of our generation?

I’d be an even bigger hypocrite if this didn’t start with me.  So, I’m going to start.  I am adobe framemaker server 9.0 review going to dig in and carve out some meaningful time to adobe framemaker server 9.0 review think about my own contribution and how to maximize my own potential to adobe framemaker server 9.0 review make the most meaningful contribution I can.  For me, it is time to be even more bold in my approach and resolve.  I will try to share my thoughts on this process in this space.

I wish I was smart enough to know how to reinvent the entire system.   But I’m not!  And for now, I’m happy.  I have a new personal benchmark.  It’s a place to start.