{"id":59978,"date":"2025-05-18T14:45:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T04:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59978"},"modified":"2025-05-18T14:45:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T04:45:05","slug":"major-world-engines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59978","title":{"rendered":"Major World Engines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59979\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The_Major_World_Engines.jpg\" alt=\"Major World Engines\" width=\"903\" height=\"867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The_Major_World_Engines.jpg 903w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The_Major_World_Engines-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/The_Major_World_Engines-768x737.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">While there are hundreds of industries, fields, activities and professions in life and business, there are four major engines that drive the world\u2019s economic and political machinery. Combined, these four dynamics account for over 90% of the financial flows and political, economic and societal power and influences on the planet.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Ever stop and think of what our world would be like if all the money spent on destructive activities were instead spent on improving the lot of all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While there are hundreds of industries, fields, activities and professions in life and business, there are four major engines that drive the world\u2019s economic and political machinery. Combined, these four dynamics account for over 90% of the financial flows and political, economic and societal power and influences on the planet. Ever stop and think of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=59978\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Major World Engines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59980,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59978\/revisions\/59980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}