If there is no way to stop the ultra-rich & corps from avoiding taxes and if companies can roam the earth while people can't—can't fix much.https://twitter.com/LSEpoliticsblog/status/845263936534564864 …
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The world runs if public infrastructure is funded to some degree—and there's some accountability on the powerful. Both receded greatly.
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Tech world likes to point to availability of consumer goods & improvements in some basic stats. Both misleading indicators for politics.
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1- "I have a better phone!" does not make up for "will my children have access to healthcare & education and a good career"? Crisis in West.
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2-"We have better growth" in poorer countries won't make up for what they know is possible in a connected world. Will be increasing crisis.
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Irony is we don't even have a hard global crisis aside from slow moving climate change that will turn into one. It's a crisis of governance.
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that is what keeps striking me about the us and U.K. with brexit. Chaos purely due to decisions, nothing unavoidable or natural.
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Yep. This is a crisis of mismanagement by insular, selfish and not-so-sharp elites.
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