(your) banality is evil

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Your rationality is a blind faith in models that were never meant to justify what you justify (day in day out). Your 'invisible hand' is a force of regression (taking from the many, giving to the few). Your 'trickle down' is (drop by drop) killing people. Can you still believe all that nonsense?

--Although the academic field is offering more refined economic theories, western 'realpolitik' follows an almost unquestioned belief in simplifying economic models - models that are often based on fundamentally flawed assumptions about what makes us humans tick. 'Free market' and 'GDP growth' have become irreplaceable dogmas even when working with developing countries. It is so obvious that such a blindfolded approach is doing more harm than good. How do people working for development institutions like the World Bank deal with this antagonism? Do they really think they are among the good guys? Do they just not care?

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from split with Cloud Rat, released May 15, 2013

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