Ethics and social justice LO27696

From: Dressler, Winfried (Winfried.Dressler@Voith.com)
Date: 01/21/02


Replying to LO27649 --

Andrew cited

>"You need the skin of a rhino to wine and dine high-fliers while you are
>threatening to consign 30,000 people out the dole queue. It is incredibly
>insensitive at this critical time."

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>And of course, this is the tip of the tip of the iceberg.

Greetings Andrew,

When the free energy level goes down and down and down, there will still
always be enough for the luxury of a few. On the tip of the iceberg is
built "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" and the iceberg is not
so much an iceberg but the creeping and growing Nothing in the Neverending
Story by Michael Ende.

>What do you think is the cure for this sickness?

May be cure comes more from caring for the poor than caring for the rich?

Yesterday I met a woman who is spending half of her time in Nepal caring
for some friends there and some children. 10 children are living in a
house with two rooms and sleeping in three beds together with a couple who
teaches them. They get a regular warm meal a day. What would be a scandal
here gives rise to greatest joy there. This woman brings some of the joy
to us and returns with a few Euro to continue her work there. There is no
market place or even stock market where joy could be traded.

No money in the world can buy joy. It is an art to spend it such, that joy
becomes possible.

By the way, Andrew, I still have something you agreed to be sent to you.
May I ask you again for your address?

Liebe Grüße,
Winfried

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