Wealth

Bob Johnson prescribes an antidote to our ‘cash addiction’

Isn’t Quakerism wonderful? But can it solve economic crises and tax blunders too? The political economist and writer Richard Murphy thinks so, and extols our Quaker testimonies of peace, equality, truth and simplicity as being ‘the basis for a good tax system’. What a refreshing and invigorating thought. It does what I delight to do – it deploys Quaker insights into the wider world. Here I want to take it even further, to dig deeper into what wealth really is, and how Quakerism sheds glorious light here too. My concern is that unless something along the following lines does see the light of day, wealth will soon sour us all. And it need not.

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