If government could provide basic human necessities-food, shelter, healthcare, livable wages, free education etc. as a safety net, thus allowing it citizens to more freely do what makes them happy, then we will see a flourishing society.

Yo, Marianne, Look at what Germany has been doing for decades with co-determinates! It's been working very well for them and it's a semi-socialist solution as it puts workers in some control of their workplace that has more than 500 employees! It can happen here too!

Democracy requires the ability to challenge one’s worldviews, which is impossible if they merely mirror interests. A market for values would allow us to profit from adopting principles that are relevant for the world. moralmarkets.org/2020/a-mark…

“Cleaning the cup from the inside out..” but with 73m, that’s a lot of cups to clean!

spot on capitalism without a soul is a deadly path

the more i hear from this person, the more i like her

This & a four hour wait will get you a pound of Velveeta at the drive through food pantry.

Socialism = capitalism with regulations. Unregulated capitalism is not sustainable. It will end when the people on the bottom are no longer able or willing to produce for the people on the top.

This is why the boomer generation was so destructive, & why it is leading us into hell: romantic hippy notions about mass consciousness change as driver, when history shows clearly that that has never happened, and that capitalism fails because it enthrones soulless sociopathy.