Business people are executives who transact business. This essay explores the impacts of businesses following Friedman’s mantra: "The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." [1] and the following quotes from Rey Sheng Her “Economy of Goodness is based on mutual benefit, not competition.” [2], and “Economy of Goodness is one of shared prosperity, hoping that all lives can thrive within a collective greater self through mutual assistance and mutual benefi

Education is frequently viewed as the principal means of social mobility, providing individuals who have meritocratically accomplished achievement the means to escape their socio-economic origins. The educational research domain of human capital theory (Becker, 1964) [1] has reinforced this perspective, which has enabled the quantification of a robust positive correlation between future income outcomes and investment in education, and has enabled decades of educational growth

Since the Second World War, global commerce moved from GATT rounds to the WTO and long supply chains. In the 2020s that arc bends back as targeted tariffs, security rules, and a border price on carbon reshape incentives. Trade is no longer a simple story of liberalisation. Current trade policies change prices, access to trade, and provoke uncertainty, implying trade benefits may transfer from some countries to others. The countries that have secure and reliable access to larg