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Equity
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For this Rosh Hashonah--the Jewish New Year--
this is what I am reflecting on:
Sh'mirat Ha'Lashon,
guarding our speech.
These are not the worst possible times our country has known
but it may well be leading to them.
While we are holding out for truth, freedom, and equity/parity/diversity/inclusivity,
we must also hold out for (and require from ourselves)
gentleness, compassion, empathy, and perspective.
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The majority of any society comprised, Smith knew, not landlords or merchants, but "servants, laborers, and workmen of different kinds," who derived their income from wages. Their welfare was the prime concern of economic policy, as Smith conceived it. "No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable," he wrote. "It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people should have such a share
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― The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
― The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Western Thought
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