{"id":229915,"date":"2023-02-20T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=229915"},"modified":"2023-02-20T03:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T03:24:16","slug":"dignity-humiliation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/02\/dignity-humiliation\/","title":{"rendered":"Dignity & Humiliation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acceptance of the Lifetime Commitment Award from the <\/em><\/strong>
\nHuman Dignity and Humiliation Studies Association<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I do not receive an award like this very often. So far in my life I have received such an award only once in 83 years.\u00a0 At the rate I am going I would have to wait until after my 166th<\/sup> birthday for another opportunity to explain such an important concept to such a wonderful audience.\u00a0 The important concept is structural humiliation.\u00a0\u00a0 The wonderful audience is you.<\/p>\n

Structural Humiliation has a flip side: It creates dignified livelihoods that do not depend on sales.\u00a0 Humiliation is the problem.\u00a0 Dignified livelihoods are the solution.\u00a0\u00a0 They are two sides of the same coin.<\/p>\n

Structural humiliation is the inevitable consequence of a labor market that depends on sales revenues.\u00a0 The employees make goods and services.\u00a0 The firm sells them.\u00a0 Part of the money from sales goes to pay their wages.<\/p>\n

Thinking globally, in the modern world system, the overall result is that \u00a0the people who need to sell something to get money vastly outnumber the employers who find it profitable to hire them.\u00a0 Similarly, it is impossible to lift all the poor out of poverty by making them into micro entrepreneurs with micro\u00a0businesses.<\/p>\n

Inevitably, millions will be humiliated because they cannot perform as a human being is expected to perform.\u00a0 They cannot comply with normal expectations, like dressing nicely, paying your bills, and supporting your children.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0A world where\u00a0decent jobs are scarce is a win or lose world. \u00a0\u00a0In the ensuing conflict, racism, sexism, mass migration, prejudice against migrants, violence against truth, violence against basic civility, and violence against mother earth become inevitable.<\/p>\n

Therefore, the ethical imperative: Create dignified livelihoods that do not depend on sales.\u00a0 Donate regularly to a nonprofit.\u00a0 Your donation helps pay for a dignified livelihood for somebody.<\/p>\n

At the level of public policy, move income from natural resources to the public purse.\u00a0 An example is Norway\u00b4s huge sovereign wealth fund.\u00a0 Then from the public purse pay people to \u00a0reforest after fires, and in general to\u00a0 save humanity from ecological disaster.<\/p>\n

These two examples could be multiplied.\u00a0 When you understand the problem and\u00a0think about ways to solve it, you find that the positive possibilities are unbounded.<\/p>\n

httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=v1O7qDalAdA<\/p>\n

10 Dec 2021 – Download PDF file:<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n

Howard Richards Lifetime Commitment Award 2021<\/a>
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Prof. Howard Richards is a member of the\u00a0<\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>. . He\u00a0<\/em>is Research Professor of Philosophy at\u00a0<\/em>Earlham College and he also <\/em>currently teaches in the University of Cape Town`s EMBA programme.\u00a0He was educated at Redlands High School in California, Yale, Stanford, UC Santa Barbara, University of Toronto, Harvard and Oxford.\u00a0His books include:\u00a0<\/em>The\u00a0Evaluation of Cultural Action,\u00a0a study of an application of Paulo Freire\u00b4s pedagogical\u00a0philosophy in rural Chile\u00a0(London Macmillan 1985);\u00a0<\/em>Letters from Quebec;\u00a0Understanding the Global Economy;\u00a0The\u00a0Dilemmas of Social Democracies;\u00a0Gandhi and the Future of Economics; Rethinking Thinking;\u00a0Unbounded Organizing in Community;<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>The Nurturing of Time Future.\u00a0His new book, written with the assistance of Gavin Andersson,\u00a0<\/em>Economic Theory and Community Development: Why Putting Community First Is Essential for our Survival,\u00a0is available from the publisher, Dignity Press, and from Amazon and other major booksellers, as a print book and as an eBook<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>howardrichards8@gmail.com<\/a> <\/u><\/em>and howardri@earlham.edu<\/a>.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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