Does our economic system have a predatory quality?

Published January 31, 2017 | By Will Tuttle

Tiger by visionary artist Madeleine Tuttle As we all know in our bones, there is a predatory quality to our economic system, and competition underlies all our institutions. We prey upon each other. It may not be obvious from within our planet’s dominant society, but our culture and our corporations and other institutions act in ways that can only be described as predatory vis-à-vis those who are less industrialized, less wealthy, and less able to protect themselves.