Universal and Moral Values, Politics and World Peace — Page 16
man faculties. It can grow as well as loose value and this second part this second reality is not yet borne upon the minds of the world's economists. They continue to treat money. as if it MUST grow by itself. . That is why whatever you deposit in the banks grows in your favour and whatever you borrow from the banks must grow in favour of the banks. But, it is done without justice because the lending hand is more powerful than the receiving hand. So, in the Capitalist system, it is the banks that dictate the terms and, as such, society is always on the receiving end. Again, this is something that has to be elaborated upon at quite some length, and we do not have time for that. . You are borrowing from your future. Briefly speaking, I assure you that as long as the global economy is run on the basis of interest, there is no hope for mankind. whatsoever. It is not pessimism — it is realism!. Imagine what you, yourself, do to your own people, to your own economy and to your own future by giving opportunity to your citizens to spend what they have not yet earned - borrowing from their future, and at high cost! This is exactly what the current economic system of the world is. Through banks, a person has the opportunity to borrow banks but from his own future! not from the. He has to pay back to the banks what he would earn in the future and much more than what he was lent. His loan multiplies and the responsibility to pay back multiplies. . When you look at a cross-section of such a society (the entire. Western economy in particular and other subservient econo16 UNIVERSAL MORAL VALUES, POLITICS & WORLD PEACE