Archbishop of York

Grey River Argus, 23 July 1941, Page 8

Archbishop of York

“WHAT IS WRONG WITH THS OLD WORLD?”

"We have turned the bounty J nature to the satisfaction of out greed, with the result that the whole economic system is now upside down. It is clear that in the natural order of things (God’s order), the object of all industry is to supply men. wants; in the language of the economist, the consumer is the person whose interest should be supreme in determining the whole P roc^ ss his sake, goods are produced and finance comes in as- the servant . production. But in our word goods are produced, not primarily to satisfs the consumer, but to enrich the producer. The profit motive predominates over the service motive; and this inversion of all that is right has gone so far that now finance contro s production, instead of production controlling finance; and the consumer, for whose benefit alone production really goes on at all, becomes no more than an indispensable condition of successful business enterpriseNow the predominance of the profitmotive is itself a source of WAR The industrial system familiar to us before the war broke out was itfielf a predisposing cause of WAR., Also it stood condemned as ineffective in its function by the fact of widespread unemployment. It must bo iemodelled.” —'‘The Listener’