[Buddha-l] Wow-- Shantideva on globalized economies and wars

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74. Others are afflicted by traveling abroad and suffer as they are far from 
home; and though they long for their wives and children, they do not see 
them for years on end.

75. Deluded by sensual desires, they sell themselves for that which they 
never acquire. Instead, their life is uselessly spent in labor for others.

77. In order to make a livelihood they enter war that endangers their lives, 
and they become servants for the sake of their self-respect. They are fools 
ridiculed for their sensual desires.