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 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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Ama and Zon.
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And also, Monopoly isn't that fun either. Really it should be renamed "Capitalist Propaganda: The Bored Game" (not board, bored, because what a dull game that is).
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That's a nice thought, but in a free-market capitalism a business has three outcomes for its endgame: bankruptcy, monopoly, or cartel. If we give up the "need to grow" (and hence don't fuel our economy with the need to consume, hence no capitalism), then we are talking.
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Imagine if we undertook the project of reevaluating the constitution with the insight that enlightenment varies no longer serve the interests of civilization/...
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*values*
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