The lean road and the cutthroat competition is modern to all the problems the world sees today. The civil war in Syria. Russia's aggressiveness. Isis in the Middle East. Ebola in West Africa. The permanent mass unemployment. Constant social cuts. States that end up in debt crisis.
Since the 80s have we slimmed down organisations. When communism fell, social democracy was not introduced but neoliberalism with gigantic gaps between those who got and those who were deprived of the little they had. Now the oil that drove the economy is running out.
Ebola had not spread around the world in solidarity helped developing countries to build up their societies and efficient and high-quality healthcare systems. It was only when Ebola came to West Africa with its particularly poor healthcare system that the infection spread so that today it threatens to become a global pandemic.
In several countries where unemployment has taken hold and social cuts continue, right-wing extremism grows as it always has in similar situations.
If we want to get rid of war, right-wing extremism, insurgencies, oil conflicts and global pandemics, so must:
- the world's rich people, organizations and states direct money to poor countries so that they can build functioning societies with, among other things functioning healthcare system
- the world's wealth is distributed in investments in jobs and welfare partly to keep purchasing power and the economic wheels rolling but also to ward off political extremism
-we have to invest in finding energy sources that we haven't thought of or managed to make use of yet. A Swedish company makes solar energy more efficient. Lockheed Martin is close to developing fusion power, which is significantly safer nuclear power than fission power, which is the nuclear power we have had so far.
Economic security and peace need not lead to overpopulation. Increased financial security for the world's poor will certainly ensure that they do not have too many children as pension insurance. And if we change society to the recycling of consumer goods and to the production of environmentally friendly, renewable energy, it does not have to lead to increased environmental destruction either.