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

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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鈥檙e acquiescing to a lifeless, unethical institutional machinery that will inevitably lead to civilization鈥檚 demise.
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I don't have despair over our greatest challenges. I have frustrations but I have hope. Hope and ideas. Love you @marwilliamson !
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More accurately our dominant economic paradigm has been corrupted because our government doesn't have a check and balance for corporations except freedom of the press and the oligarchs own the press
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That and trump worship
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Thank you for saying this! It is a great lie at the heart of things that there's just not enough for everyone when in fact the hoarding of wealth and power by the ruling class is really the issue
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If we have the genius why haven鈥檛 republicans figured out a solution for reducing gun violence.
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Yes. Exactly right.
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Yup, capitalism sucks
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Or, to put it another way, the Democrat-Republicans are terrorists who attack the world and steal all of our money.
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The economic paradigm that allowed you to become a millionaire
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that's a very nice way of saying it!
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