The work you are brilliantly producing this week hits squarely on where we need to focus energy and attention. The time is now and focus is critical. Thank you for what you are doing. I will strive to relay the message through words and acts.
"Every serious proposal to repair the U.S. decline requires downward redistribution of this stolen wealth. Universal health care shifts money from private extraction to treatment. Social housing shifts land and credit from speculation to shelter. Climate policy shifts investment from fossil rents to electrification and storage. A federal jobs guarantee shifts public money into care work and infrastructure repair. Universal basic income shifts part of the productivity dividend directly to households as automation reduces the need for human labor."
Excellent. Money is indeed the root of all evil as it pertains to American society and structures. The optimist will say with enough work and attention reversing our current state is possible,previous norms reinstated, and new ones implemented. Perhaps.
The realistic (pessimistic?) approach might be to acknowledge that the last 40+ years were the makings of a much older and entrenched American culture that overly celebrates this invasive root. Just as many correctly state that the current president is a symptom of something much bigger, the same can be said about the country and its relationship to money.
This type of culture changing work, while not impossible, is a herculean task compared to rebuilding a wall between business and politics.
“The meter cannot be removed without bringing down everything that has been built on top of it. The owner of the meter owns the cognitive infrastructure of the civilization.”
Sometimes I wonder if AGI was actually created sometime around the turn of the millennium, and has been patiently moving the pieces in place for its domination ever since.
“And we shall serve them, and they will be happy…and controlled.” -I, Mudd
The work you are brilliantly producing this week hits squarely on where we need to focus energy and attention. The time is now and focus is critical. Thank you for what you are doing. I will strive to relay the message through words and acts.
On that:
"Every serious proposal to repair the U.S. decline requires downward redistribution of this stolen wealth. Universal health care shifts money from private extraction to treatment. Social housing shifts land and credit from speculation to shelter. Climate policy shifts investment from fossil rents to electrification and storage. A federal jobs guarantee shifts public money into care work and infrastructure repair. Universal basic income shifts part of the productivity dividend directly to households as automation reduces the need for human labor."
https://exoprophet.substack.com/p/papier-mache-america
Excellent. Money is indeed the root of all evil as it pertains to American society and structures. The optimist will say with enough work and attention reversing our current state is possible,previous norms reinstated, and new ones implemented. Perhaps.
The realistic (pessimistic?) approach might be to acknowledge that the last 40+ years were the makings of a much older and entrenched American culture that overly celebrates this invasive root. Just as many correctly state that the current president is a symptom of something much bigger, the same can be said about the country and its relationship to money.
This type of culture changing work, while not impossible, is a herculean task compared to rebuilding a wall between business and politics.
“The meter cannot be removed without bringing down everything that has been built on top of it. The owner of the meter owns the cognitive infrastructure of the civilization.”
Sometimes I wonder if AGI was actually created sometime around the turn of the millennium, and has been patiently moving the pieces in place for its domination ever since.
“And we shall serve them, and they will be happy…and controlled.” -I, Mudd