Tuesday, May 18, 2010

What Do We Value?

In a capitalistic society such as ours, the answer is pretty easy. Money. We tend to reward those who make it with more money and tend to penalize those who don’t with less money. And the rewards and punishments tend to come fairly quickly. Unprofitable stocks get sold and often, but not always, CEOs of failing companies get fired. This, of course, was not true for many of the folks on Wall Street who recently got huge financial bonuses for exceedingly poor performance. Tradition, tradition.
So as a society, we may talk the talk, e.g., the importance of education, the need to feed the hungry and house the homeless, etc., etc., but as a society, we have been very poor at walking the walk. Where we put our money tells the tale, not our words.

Ron Breazeale, Ph.D.
Author, Duct Tape Isn’t Enough
http://www.reachinghome.com/

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