I siste nummer av YesMagazine! Har David Korten laget en oppstilling av forskjellene i organiseringsprinsippene på Wall Street og i naturen. En spennende lesning!
| Wall Street | Nature | |
| Defining Value | Money | Life |
| Primary performance indicators | Growth in financial returns, flows and assets. | Life´s abundance, health, resilience, and creative potential. |
| Primary dynamic | Competition to maximaze self-interest. | Cooperation to optimize self- and community interest. |
| Decision-making power | Global, top-down, centralized, and concentrated. | Local, bottom-up, and distributed. |
| Time frame | Immediate return. | Sustained yield. |
| Local character | Uniform | Diverse |
| Resource control | Monopolized | Shared |
| Resource flows | Global, linear, one-time use from mine to dump. | Local, circular, perpetual use, zero waste. |
| Deficits of concern | Financial | Social and enviromental. |
| Measure of efficiency | Returns to financial capital | Returns to social and natural capital. |
| Growth | Infinite growth of money and material consumption. | A stage in life´s endless regenerative cycles of birth, growth, death and rebirth. |
