Without access to health care or higher education and burdened by heavy college loans, people are practically caged within a system where the actualization of their potential becomes harder and harder to achieve. 1/1
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Chronic economic anxiety thus becomes a constant companion., as it was even before the pandemic for tens of millions of Americans.There, in the constriction of their opportunities, lies the constriction of the American economy. 1/2
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To speak of the economy as a separate entity that bestows its abundance on people rather than as the creativity of people sharing their abundance with the world, is the upside down thinking that makes our system so skewed and inevitably cruel.1/3

Apr 17, 2020 · 2:15 PM UTC

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Even now masters of the universe speak of re-opening the economy with almost bloodless lack of consideration for how many millions of people will be too financially devastated by then to participate. Bubonic plague led to end of serfdom; COVID-19 threatens to re-introduce it.1/4
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If our govt doesn’t stop underestimating the intelligence of the American people, recognizing the barrenness of our system has been revealed for all its heartlessness, they will be caught off guard by a wave of chaos that will come crashing over all of us when the pandemic ends.
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“Money does not come from a bunch of corp. aristocrats dropping crumbs from the table in the form of job creation. We must change the paradigm from an economic bottom line to a humanitarian bottom line. Money comes from the creativity and productivity of the American people.”
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Replying to @marwilliamson
It is so endearing that Marianne has a unique tweet numbering system. Each tweet is, after all, a single tweet.
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May I share my proposal of a market for moral and cultural values? I elaborated it as an instrument to reconcile economics and ethics, individual and community, capitalism and democracy. I wrote about it here. es.britsoc.co.uk/covid-19-is…
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Yeah, Crapitalism is not a Love Story aka Michael Moore.... It is a Greedy Selfish System of sink or swim...
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We don't serve the economy; the economy serves us.