Yes we would! We need a people-planet- centered system instead of the current where people and planet are at the service of a large-scale business sysem. Question is: what is it we need to do to shape a new earth?
If defense contractors didn’t dominate our foreign policy; and Big Pharma and health insurance companies didn’t dominate our healthcare; and fossil fuel companies didn’t dominate our energy policies, wouldn’t we all be better off?
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I wish we could do more to help people imagine these things because with the current reality it's difficult for many to conceive of a better future.
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So, you're willing to take down the military industrial complex?
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As a young econ major at UBC I realized this: 'Wow, the whole U.S. economy is a keiretsu based on 3 tent-poles / sectors: - Autos/oil - big pharma - defence And for all of the accretive utility to the economy of the latter products? We might as well build pyramids in the sand.
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I wish you'd consider speaking to the absolute failure of markets to protect people. We've spent billions on vaccine and the private enterprise failures are everywhere. Big pharma makes $1000 a second on vaccines, but no one holds them accountable for results. Medicare for all
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Yes. How do we do this?
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To move away from the "everything has to make a profit" motive. Away from Capitalism towards a caring socialism model , where All are involved and have rights to food , healthcare , housing & education ext.
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Oh and we wouldn’t be able to afford gas or to heat our homes. We’d be stuck at home and we’d be cold.
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Well the defense contractors wouldn’t be better off.
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Well, yes, probably, when you put it that way. But many voters in the USA have boundless respect for anyone who makes a buck, and that’s the sort of person they want making government policy.
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