Greece: how human self-organisation dictates to countries

All companies and all countries ... everyone really ... are constantly being pressured to become ever more monetarily efficient. As such, no matter what anyone wants to do, people and organisations must adopt ever more monetarily efficient characteristics or risk becoming marginalised, re-organised or disappear altogether.

Today it was reported that Greece is in financial crisis (link). What that means is its way of life was too expensive to sustain. Now it must change its ways. While this might seem blindingly obvious to many, the implications seem less well understood.

Because public services, such as welfare, health care and education, are expenses to a country, they too become subject to exactly the same monetarily competitive forces as countries are. In the long run, good education, for example, will take a back seat to the cost-effectiveness of that education.

Over time monetary efficiency will become ever more important to everything we do. In the case of health care the cost of a new drug or practice will become increasingly more important than its effectiveness. (See NICE in the UK) In education, degrees will have to increasingly tied to improving economic competitiveness of students.

While some my not understand why this is a problem, others will recognise the enormous damage that this is causing. Economic efficiency does not care if animals go extinct, or whether we pollute the earth, or whether people are poor or rich -- or live or die, for that matter. Most importantly, it does not care for our future or for the future of any living thing on earth.

That is why the current human self-organisational system ensures a cold and barren future. The first step to changing that future is to become aware of how the present is shaped by human self-organisation. To learn more, go to our website.

One last point: there will always be exceptions to what I just said. All systems have 'noise'. Unless the human self-organisation system is changed, they will always remain exceptions.

Having said that, we are very interested in learning about counter examples. Please contact us on (here) if you know of any.