Imagine if the Trump era were the night of rock bottom. Imagine if after this we sobered up. Stopped trusting billionaires to save us. Stopped venerating wealth above service. Stopped trusting those who break our society to be its fixers. Imagine if an age of reform is coming.
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Imagine if no one said “win win,” “thought leader,” “doing well by doing good,” or “conscious capitalism” ever again. Except ironically — or when teaching the history of the age of markets.
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Imagine if we knew that generosity isn’t the same as justice. That innovation isn’t the same as progress. That a cupcake company that gives back isn’t the same as reform. That Lean In isn’t the same as social policy. That “changing the world” isn’t the same as changing the world.
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Imagine if Mark Zuckerberg said he was changing the world, and then no one believed him, and then we moved on and just properly regulated him since we saw that he was just a guy with a company.
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Imagine if super-rich people remade themselves in the spirit of the community organizations they donate to, instead of remaking those organizations in their spirit.
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Imagine if we understood that, while Monopoly is a game, monopolies are no fun, and we need to smash them. Face and Book. Goo and Gle.
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Imagine if we fell back in love with the founding American creed of self-government. And we fought off every hoodied boy billionaire or strongman demagogue or chemical magnate who wanted to seize public power.
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Imagine if we didn’t just imagine this.
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If you want to read where this came from, you can: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/539747/winners-take-all-by-anand-giridharadas/9780451493248/ …
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It's already happening. Young people choose which country has the best benefits, go there and collect welfare while accepting additional charity items from fascists and live happily ever after.
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You offer not a single solitary concrete behaviour or act as an alternative to how things are. I can't find a single thing in this that suggests what to actually do. Gates and Winfrey build schools and hospitals. I have a millennial friend who started a business ar 17. And you..?
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Where did you get the idea that starting a business, or worse, working on Wall St, was ‘being the change you want to see in the world’? (I’m not a young person :-))
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This inspired me to post video of my youngest in internship helping wildlife! So many young people inspire mepic.twitter.com/iDIIDN08qS
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Great things are done by persistent people doing seemingly small things


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Reform and consciousness.
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