Agalia Tan
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
@agaaalia
Senior Strategist at We Are Social
RADAR Chapter Lead for Singapore
courage — one of the most fundamental virtues to have
By the eighteenth century, a new ideology was taking form, especially in Britain, that “greed is good” (to use a recent summary formulation), because greed spurs a society’s efforts and inventiveness. By giving vent to greed, the logic goes, societies can best harness the insatiable ambitions, great energies and ingenuity of their citizens. While g
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the zine theme is bypassing the invisible hand. When Adam Smith first came up with the metaphor of the invisible hand of the market, he was referring to how individuals acting in self-interest could promote good for the public. But what this was also an argument to allow market forces to play out.
Today, the invisible hand has our heads turned, and has placed efficiency on a pedestal. What results is a society characterised by clockwork.
Everything is clockwork.