Over half a million homeless people in America is not a cause, it’s a symptom. A nation’s economy should to the best of our ability set everyone up to win. Yet ours does not. Those who hold the major levers of power don’t even think that would be a good idea. 1/3
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From refusing to tax the very richest to corporate subsidies to absurd military budget, our biggest problem isn’t economic but moral: a willingness to see massive human suffering as an acceptable result of our economy’s driving impulse to give more to those who already have. 2/3
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The only thing that will keep this country from an ultimate descent into societal madness is a massive change of heart.3/3
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“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.” — Jung
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Replying to @silkycoyote
I don’t agree with that first part. Love leads to the *right use* of power. Look at parenting, for example. Good parenting is the ultimate expression of love combined with an appropriate exercise of power.

Aug 27, 2022 · 1:16 PM UTC

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