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        "msgid": "stop-the-world-i-want-to-get-off-1447893297",
        "date": "2002-12-23 00:00:00",
        "title": "Stop the world, I want to get off!",
        "author": null,
        "source": "JP",
        "tags": null,
        "topic": null,
        "summary": "Stop the world, I want to get off! The article on the power of corporations toward good governance (The Jakarta Post, Dec. 18) by Yanuar Nugroho was highly informative in many respects. Profit, of course, has always been the main objective of business, as even the street vendor knows that cash in must exceed cash out, otherwise it's curtains. With the profits, obviously comes the power, and that is the area where wisdom is severely lacking.",
        "content": "<p>Stop the world, I want to get off!<\/p>\n<p>The article on the power of corporations toward good<br>\ngovernance (The Jakarta Post, Dec. 18) by Yanuar Nugroho<br>\nwas highly informative in many respects. Profit, of course, has<br>\nalways been the main objective of business, as even the street<br>\nvendor knows that cash in must exceed cash out, otherwise it's<br>\ncurtains.<\/p>\n<p>With the profits, obviously comes the power, and that is the<br>\narea where wisdom is severely lacking. The mentality of greed has<br>\nunfortunately, but understandably, spiraled downwards to the<br>\ngrass roots, where it is more recognizable as survival, which in<br>\nreality is the only option open to the poor.<\/p>\n<p>No matter how many world conferences there are (and they cost<br>\nan absolute fortune on their own) the people who really matter<br>\nare simply not prepared to relinquish what they have. The<br>\ninequalities that exist in the world have been heading in one<br>\ndirection for years, with most (if not all) statistics indicating<br>\nthat the divide is getting wider.<\/p>\n<p>When I was young there used to be a saying that it was better<br>\nto give than to receive, but today the opposite applies. Speaking<br>\nas a Martian and looking down on this planet I see nothing but<br>\nhands held out, with 10 percent full of money and the other 90<br>\npercent begging for it. The trouble is that the merry-go-round is<br>\nout of control, spinning so fast that everyone is seemingly<br>\ntrapped and thus unable to change their ways. The do-gooders are<br>\nwaving their arms in absolute desperation, with the rich waving<br>\nback as does royalty.<\/p>\n<p>\"Stop the world, I want to get off!\" comes a cry from someone<br>\nat the back, but as he stands, so the momentum spins him off to<br>\nhis death. There is silence for a while, when suddenly a lone<br>\nvoice is heard saying that it's OK, as now there is more food for<br>\nthe rest of us. This proves that the only thing on this planet<br>\nthat remains forever cheap is life itself.<\/p>\n<p>DAVID WALLIS, Medan<\/p>",
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