An economic system based more on competition than collaboration will not only fail to solve humanity’s greatest challenges over the next 100 years. It actually created most of them & if allowed to will perpetuate them. We need a fundamental disruption of our economic status quo.

So you're a socialist?

I support a mix of socialism and highly regulated free market capitalism.

Socialism and capitalism are not compatible. An economy is either controlled by the workers or it is not.

There are many countries that in fact do mix them! For that matter, public schools and police and fire departments are basically socialist institutions. We ourselves have a mixed economy.

Only in the last few years have we come up with this weird attitude that if someone doesn’t agree with us that they’ve “disappointed us.” Why have I “disappointed” you? Do we all have to agree with each other about everything all the time? Can’t we actually learn from each other?