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Satish Sharma's avatar

Superb ji. The very foundations of 'a monetary value for every asset' are being shaken by principles embedded within 1st Nation instincts. Seva, service to creation, is intervening in the most 'voracious consumption' arenas. The implosion of resource grabbing entities will be biblical.

Nazem Alkudsi's avatar

There is more kindness in your comment than in most balance sheets, Satish ji, and I thank you for it. You are right, and not about one tradition only: seva in Sanatana Dharma tradition, zakat in the Islam, tzedakah in Judaism and , tithe in Christianity — the old ledgers all reserved a column for service to creation.

Our age inverted the entry, and accumulation itself became the liturgy. Yet the older ethic still surfaces, sometimes in a laboratory. On April 12, 1955, the evening the polio trial results were announced, Edward R. Murrow asked Jonas Salk who owned the patent on his vaccine. "Could you patent the sun?" was the whole answer. The cure went to everyone, and the money, far from disappearing, simply moved — to whoever could fill the vials, keep them cold, and certify every dose.

If the K3 file truly goes free on July 27, the same migration follows: value leaves the artifact and settles in the trust around it. So the question your comment opens: who will run the cold chain for intelligence?

Thank you again Sir.