Jn Lai

Questioning Development Jn Lai

This tiny book affirms that the human world has plenty of almost everything. We have trillions of uncountable money that virtually can buy anything. We have more educated people ever than before. Then questions - Have we come along 'development' to breed the billion poor and to bleed Mother Earth? Are we truly happy with the existing reality? It takes a critique of 'unsustainable development' otherwise, people in general call 'development'. It questions market economy, inequality and environmental annihilation by looking at the miscast roles of education and governments, and misdirection of the science and technology. Finally, a need of a symphony is voiced for a sovereign, self-support and happy lifestyle avoiding nonessential consumerism. This book has nine sections; Section One - DEVELOPMENT OF ADVERSITIES: Pandemic of Lockdown; Economy of Non-essential; At the threshold of the 4th Industrial Revolution; Voice for Concern; Section Two - SOLD OUT EDUCATION: Learn to Lose; Senselessness Prevails; Growth but the Grimmer; Section Three - ACHING ECONOMY: Poor's Work, Rich's Business; GDP Gimmick; Mystic Money; Section Four - INHERENT CONFUSION: Need, Desire or Greed? Need of Security and Sovereignty; Section Five - SEDUCTIVE CONSUMERISM: Two Umbrellas; Commercial Propaganda and Packaging; How Much?Section Six - NOVEL SLAVERY: Psychology of Unemployment; Lifestyle in Homelessness; Section Seven - IN AND AROUND CAPITALISM: Hard-earned Equality; When Good Things Sound Bad; Draw Lots is for the Worst; Section Eight - STOOPING STATES: Governments' Purpose; Wrong Deliverance; Mission Inequity; Section Nine - FUNDAMENTAL REALIZATION: Development: A Meaning; Forgotten Happiness;