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
So true… unfortunately
Replying to @marwilliamson
no. the reason for all the doom and gloom is mostly because the media over hypes things to sell. and everyone wants to solve our problems but it's not as easy as the democrats make it out to be. go green for example.-
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It is because these solutions erode the very economic base which is required to support them
Replying to @marwilliamson
Truth…the most dominant moral underpinnings to modern day capitalism are greed, exploitation, hypocrisy, etc…it is a failure of thinking to assume innovation can not occur under an economic system that encourages high moral standing, ethical principles, etc…plutocracy is broke
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Not going to vote it away. Not going to pray or wish it away. The deeply entrenched fascist oligarchs laugh while you try, and lead your supporters to futility.
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Tens of Millions earned college degrees with little difficulty. The Trouble is the 13% who do not PULL THEIR OWN WEIGHT! THESE Dead Weight DoDos; Squeak, Squeal, & Moan; for Suckers to PAY $3.4 Trillion for All STUDENTS Mistakes. NO! NEVER SCREW KIDS TO CLEAN UP ADULTS CRAP!
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