The reason there’s so much despair around humanity’s most serious challenges is not because we don’t have the genius or creativity with which to solve them, but because their solutions don’t align with our dominant economic paradigm. 🧵

Jun 21, 2023 · 11:45 AM UTC

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We need to stand for humanitarian values in the face of a soulless, merciless insistence that profit matters more than people, animals or even the earth itself.
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Anything short of that (and the courage it requires) and we’re acquiescing to a lifeless, unethical institutional machinery that will inevitably lead to civilization’s demise.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
The reason for the despair is people are not free and the reason is people like you have built up a gigantic state that controls almost everything they do.
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It's not the dominant economic paradigm. It's that by bringing in so many voices to be heard, we've made it too easy for one or more of them to say no to any or all of the possible solutions to our problems. We desperately want progress, but we've made it too easy to stop it.
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Sure... but the dominant economic paradigm is controlled by a handful of megalomanic, paranoid narcissists...who won't let go of the reins at any cost.
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the love of it is the root of the system itself .
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So is war!
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Well said, wealth has a separate rationalization
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Humanitarian values start with educating every child equally and equitably. Until we do this, it's rinse/repeat. Populism doesn't do this because most ⚪ children get an education that gives them access/opportunity to higher education.
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