Rob's Ringpage on the Global Leadership Ring

Robert J. Morton (robmorton@clara.net) is a software developer, systems analyst and programmer who is also a technical writer. He worked in the IT industry for over 25 years. Through a combination of circumstances he became long-term unemployed and has had to live on welfare since 1991. This fired him to turn his skills towards an incisive analysis of the society in which he lives, and from thence to ask - and seek answers to - the most fundamental questions of life. The result was his book - The Lost Inheritance.

This book delivers a forthright indictment against capitalism for the unjustifiable disparity it has inflicted upon the inhabitants of Planet Earth. It then ventures a suggestion for a better and fairer way of turning work into wealth, based on an alternative concept of family and community which is neither capitalist nor socialist. It then goes on to ask and seek answers to the ultimate questions posed by the very existence of human consciousness.

Topics Include: A Corporate Slave - a personal commentary on the author's former career.; A Relative Society - society behaves differently according to who you are.; Misunderstanding - mutual understanding necessitates common experience.; Unemployment - corporate prejudice and the fickleness of market forces.; Surviving on Welfare - how the rich decide what the poor need to live on.; Locked into Poverty - it's like a pit: once you fall in, you can't get out.; Poverty Isn't Relative - poverty does not always wear the same clothes.; Disparity of Wealth - has Bill Gates worked 80,000 times as hard as I have?; Birth of Oppression - how did global wealth become so unfairly divided?; Capitalism - a system designed to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.; A Fairer Society - all need the means of turning their work into wealth.; A Higher Reality - is the reality we perceive merely the tip of an iceberg?
Some of the author's poems which appear in the book:: The Lost Inheritance - a bitter-sweet lament about our planet.; Millennia - A poem about the retrogression of human progress.; The Corporate Clock - A poem about stress in the modern world.; War and Peace? - A poem about long-term unemployment.