Money Matters

Do you believe that 1000 billion dollars pumped in banks and financial institutions or additional 1000 billion dollars to assist the vehicle industry, students, the unemployed or people who lost their houses, etc will make your life better? I don't. That's because this is what worked in the past, when we believed that working longer hours, making more money, buying bigger cars or even sending the kids to college will make everyone happy. It's not so anymore.

I don't believe that buying more 'stuff' will make me enjoy life more. I don't believe in over-consumption, in working 12 hour days, in having my kids with the help of reproductive techniques when I'm over 40, and putting them in the hands of Chinese nannies. I just want to live a simple, decent life. I want to understand how to manage in life so that I don't feel so unbalanced and out of touch with nature - something that led us to the financial crisis in the first place.

So whatever Obama is now planning to do with economy does not consider me - an individual who realizes that the world has entered a new phase, where everyone and everything is interconnected, and where we can't continue living in a old egoistic manner. I expect the new government acknowledge this and then help us all cope with the transition. 

In short, I want them to teach me the new rules of the game, and not just reduce everything to money matters.