The Real Economy should be...
Amos is a transfer from Malaysia. He was educated in Chinese like me and he wants to get involved in environmental researches in his country one day. Now both of us are taking Global Environment and Evolutionary Human Society taught by Charles Hall. We are learning a lot.
Amos是个今年刚转来ESF的马来西亚人。他之前接受跟我差不多的中文教育，想成为一个环境领域的科学家。他现在跟我一起上“全球环境与进化的人类社会”这门课，受教于Charles Hall，学到很多。
He has a passion for blogging and often posts what he learned in ESF and his thoughts on it. The short reflection below is written in English by Amos and is translated by Google Translate, with the help of the author and me. I'm kinda lazy so I copied this with his permission.
他对博客比较有激情，常常发布一些在ESF所学到的知识以及他的一些想法。以下这篇短文是他用英文写的，然后用Google Translate翻译，再修改，语言看上去好像有点生硬。自己比较懒，没动力写，于是就转载了。
There are some problems about current economic systems.
1. It's a dead system that violates law of thermodynamics.
2. It encourages greediness.
3. Distribution of good and services are not equal or never equal.
当前的经济系统存在一些问题。
1、这是一个违反了热力学定律的死系统。
2、它鼓励贪念。
3、商品和服务的分配不平等，或永远不会平等。
The very first problem,
According to Law of physics, energy and material cannot be created nor destroyed. The current economic system is a system emphasizes goods from firm to household and household to firm, and government as a character in the system also to support and govern. Input of energy and material from the environment is neglected. Also, waste did not disappear but return to the environment.
As my professor says, economic system is a subsystem of the environmental system. Current Environmental challenges are the degradation of the environment and threaten our economic well-being. Professor Charles Hall said so.
第一个问题， 根据物理学定律，能源和物质既不能被创造，亦不能被销毁。目前的经济体系强调物品在企业和家庭间的流动，而政府亦为支持和管理的角色。来自于自然环境的能源和物质的输入，是被忽视的。此外，产生的废弃物并不会消失，而是回到自然环境。正如我的教授所说，经济系统是环境系统的子系统。目前的环境挑战是环境退化，威胁我们的经济福祉。查尔斯霍尔教授如是说。
The second problem,
Greediness led to all kinds of conflict. Even schools today teach us to compete. The main problem is economic systems led to infinite greediness. Growth is the key word instead of sufficient, huge growth, several times higher than the population growth to indicate healthy economy, and improve of living quality. However we should ask ourselves, is that true?
Master Jing Kong said a lot about these problems, and he said this must be changed to save yourself and the world.
第二个问题，贪婪导致各种冲突。现在甚至连学校都教我们竞争。主要的问题是现在的经济体系导致无限的贪念。“增长”是重点，而非“足够”。我们以巨大的、数倍于人口增长速度的增长，来体现经济的健康发展、生活质素的改善。我们应该扪心自问：这是事实吗？净空法师对这些问题已经说了很多了，他说为了拯救自己和世界，我们必须改变这种思维。
The third thing,
It is easy to understand, that we should look at what we eat everyday. Think of what the majority of the earth eat everyday. Is that because we deserved to have what we have because of the labor work we have done? Certainly not for me. Farmers spend a lot of time and effort and have little 'leisure' compare to us. Think of what they are wearing, how much fun you're having which they can't afford to have?
Taking benefits, from people! Everyone takes benefits, but no one loss benefits? No. Nor taking turns to enjoy the goods. Plutocracy is a term, rich man ruling the world which is what the world is today. Do you think they try all ways to take turns to rule? No. They try all ways not to let the others rule.
I am not sure about how people define equality.
第三，这很容易理解，就是我们应该看看我们每天所吃的东西。再想想地球上大多数人每天所吃的。是因为我们所做的劳动让我们理应拥有我们所有的 东西吗？对我来说，当然不是。与我们相比，农民花了很多时间和精力生产粮食，几乎没有闲暇时间。想想他们所穿的，以及你拥有多少他们无法享有的欢乐。从别人身上攫取利 益！每个人都追求利益，难道不会有人损失吗？会有的。人们轮流得利吗？明显不是。“富豪统治”指富人统治世界——正如当今世界。你认 为他们致力于轮流执政？不，它们尽力不让别人当权。我不知道人们如何界定平等。
After listening to Master Jing Kong, I know I should start from myself.
No longer for possession, life is not only us, not only you and me.
听了净空大师的慧语，我知道我应该从我心做起。不再为了拥有， 生活不只是我们个人的，它还是全人类的。
Amos是个今年刚转来ESF的马来西亚人。他之前接受跟我差不多的中文教育，想成为一个环境领域的科学家。他现在跟我一起上“全球环境与进化的人类社会”这门课，受教于Charles Hall，学到很多。
He has a passion for blogging and often posts what he learned in ESF and his thoughts on it. The short reflection below is written in English by Amos and is translated by Google Translate, with the help of the author and me. I'm kinda lazy so I copied this with his permission.
他对博客比较有激情，常常发布一些在ESF所学到的知识以及他的一些想法。以下这篇短文是他用英文写的，然后用Google Translate翻译，再修改，语言看上去好像有点生硬。自己比较懒，没动力写，于是就转载了。
There are some problems about current economic systems.
1. It's a dead system that violates law of thermodynamics.
2. It encourages greediness.
3. Distribution of good and services are not equal or never equal.
当前的经济系统存在一些问题。
1、这是一个违反了热力学定律的死系统。
2、它鼓励贪念。
3、商品和服务的分配不平等，或永远不会平等。
The very first problem,
According to Law of physics, energy and material cannot be created nor destroyed. The current economic system is a system emphasizes goods from firm to household and household to firm, and government as a character in the system also to support and govern. Input of energy and material from the environment is neglected. Also, waste did not disappear but return to the environment.
As my professor says, economic system is a subsystem of the environmental system. Current Environmental challenges are the degradation of the environment and threaten our economic well-being. Professor Charles Hall said so.
第一个问题， 根据物理学定律，能源和物质既不能被创造，亦不能被销毁。目前的经济体系强调物品在企业和家庭间的流动，而政府亦为支持和管理的角色。来自于自然环境的能源和物质的输入，是被忽视的。此外，产生的废弃物并不会消失，而是回到自然环境。正如我的教授所说，经济系统是环境系统的子系统。目前的环境挑战是环境退化，威胁我们的经济福祉。查尔斯霍尔教授如是说。
The second problem,
Greediness led to all kinds of conflict. Even schools today teach us to compete. The main problem is economic systems led to infinite greediness. Growth is the key word instead of sufficient, huge growth, several times higher than the population growth to indicate healthy economy, and improve of living quality. However we should ask ourselves, is that true?
Master Jing Kong said a lot about these problems, and he said this must be changed to save yourself and the world.
第二个问题，贪婪导致各种冲突。现在甚至连学校都教我们竞争。主要的问题是现在的经济体系导致无限的贪念。“增长”是重点，而非“足够”。我们以巨大的、数倍于人口增长速度的增长，来体现经济的健康发展、生活质素的改善。我们应该扪心自问：这是事实吗？净空法师对这些问题已经说了很多了，他说为了拯救自己和世界，我们必须改变这种思维。
The third thing,
It is easy to understand, that we should look at what we eat everyday. Think of what the majority of the earth eat everyday. Is that because we deserved to have what we have because of the labor work we have done? Certainly not for me. Farmers spend a lot of time and effort and have little 'leisure' compare to us. Think of what they are wearing, how much fun you're having which they can't afford to have?
Taking benefits, from people! Everyone takes benefits, but no one loss benefits? No. Nor taking turns to enjoy the goods. Plutocracy is a term, rich man ruling the world which is what the world is today. Do you think they try all ways to take turns to rule? No. They try all ways not to let the others rule.
I am not sure about how people define equality.
第三，这很容易理解，就是我们应该看看我们每天所吃的东西。再想想地球上大多数人每天所吃的。是因为我们所做的劳动让我们理应拥有我们所有的 东西吗？对我来说，当然不是。与我们相比，农民花了很多时间和精力生产粮食，几乎没有闲暇时间。想想他们所穿的，以及你拥有多少他们无法享有的欢乐。从别人身上攫取利 益！每个人都追求利益，难道不会有人损失吗？会有的。人们轮流得利吗？明显不是。“富豪统治”指富人统治世界——正如当今世界。你认 为他们致力于轮流执政？不，它们尽力不让别人当权。我不知道人们如何界定平等。
After listening to Master Jing Kong, I know I should start from myself.
No longer for possession, life is not only us, not only you and me.
听了净空大师的慧语，我知道我应该从我心做起。不再为了拥有， 生活不只是我们个人的，它还是全人类的。
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