Why is the World Run by Bean Counters?

"A colleague asked me not so long ago: “Why is the world run by bean counters?” Interesting question. My take is that for the last 150 years, Western culture has been in the grip of left-brain thinking, and manipulating people like things. This made sense as long as there were huge economic gains that came from it. So the bean counters, the accountants, the economists, the green eyeshade people were on top of the world. They were good at counting things. The economics was on their side. They were masters of the universe. They were perfectly adapted to this way of running the world."
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Source: Forbes