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Often the activities of controlling commissions in charge of regulating transactions are made useless by the manipulation of information on the part of dishonest operators or by tip -offs of "insider trading". (59:1) Baha'u'llah eliminates all this chaos by proclaiming the necessity of "one world monetary system" and "the prohibition of gambling " [59]. Third world countries will profit from this solution as well, those countries whose currencies are continuously depreciated compared to strong western currencies, thus exposing them to continuous crises provoked by the fact they have to return the sums they borrowed increased by continuous depreciations of their value and relevant interests. (59:2) Parallel to one international currency one can foresee one system of weights and measurements. In this new world system multinationals that monopolize the market imposing high prices, eliminating competition and influencing economical and social politics of various governments even the manipulation of information "will be completely swept away" [60]. (59:3) It should be noted how harmful the influence of multinationals and monopolies is on social and political government politics, clearly in contrast to the interests of the masses, to equal distribution of resources and to respect of freedom and citizens' rights. (59:4) After the fall of the Berlin wall the idea of dictatorship of the proletariat and of the economic system set up in the eighteen hundreds by Marx and Lenin, also known as "socialist economical system" has definitely waned. (59:5) Half of the world's population has been obliged to be a protagonist of this economical system that in some spots on the planet has been so hard as to put to the test the life of people residing there. However, those who believe in the Western capitalistic economical system can't cry victory either. (59:6) Even this system based on the principle of free market economy is suffering from chronic diseases and tumors that are leading it to make mistakes capable of shaking its foundations. (59:7) When, in an economy, the fundamental goal is profit for the sake of profit, a series of components that make up the human being are abandoned which slowly remove him from that economical system. It is furthermore important to notice that the economic value of "things" should not always be reduced only to "money" or to "pure profit", but to other elements that make up the life of a man. (59:8) In a new economic system, such as the one we are outlining here, other values will have to be jointly introduced together with profit and the law of the market: service to community, respect for the ecosystem, protection and conservation of natural resources, a more equal distribution of primary resources, the quality of work and life, excellence of products (this latter is commonly called "quality", managed through the "product quality control" process).
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