1/ We have got to stop apologizing for wanting public policy to be guided by humanitarian interests. We should proclaim unabashedly that whatever improves the human condition ultimately improves the economy because it increases people’s creativity and productivity.

Nov 9, 2020 · 1:40 AM UTC

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2/ The system’s response to that is always, “Oh silly unsophisticated one, you know nothing about economics!” They use the idea that economics is a verifiable science as a kind of magical spell to keep people from questioning assumptions that otherwise we’d know are so wrong.
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3/ For instance many of them call an economy where 1% control more wealth than the bottom 90%, tens of millions live in or near poverty & 40% of the people can’t afford a $400 unexpected expenditure a “good” economy. Good? No economy where children are hungry is a “good” economy.
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People elect politicians to change policy. No need to apologise, that is the role of the legislature.
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Yeah that's what the military industrial complex if for.
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That’s right, otherwise his campaign slogan to heal the soul of America is just empty words.
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Improving the human condition is important not because it improves the economy but because it improves quality of life. Equitable access to healthcare, not based on economic status, is a human right for everyone in a society. Extreme wealth is an abomination when children starve.
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Preach
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I like Vendana Shiva’s argument in her book Water Wars, which is basically, ‘if we have a right to life, then we must also have rights to the resources required to sustain that life’ - Of course clean air & H20, food, but also shelter & clothes, no one should be w/o these basics
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We have tried trickle down economics and it hasn't worked. Maybe some form of socialism is the next option.
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The only purpose of an economy is to improve the human condition. We are protecting an oligarchy when we protect the ‘economy’ over the welfare of the people.
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Amen
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