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sean's avatar

It's wonderful to find a writer who sees it as it is and addresses the institutional dysfunction directly. It's also interesting to note that there are political opponents (conservatives) that agree with a liberal author. Remember that Massachusetts voters in 2010 rejected a Liberal sitting AG and voted for Scott Brown, the first Massachusetts Republican US Senator elected in 35 years. He opposed Obama Care, its current legacy a mere 27 million uninsured, and was the deciding vote in favor of Dodd/Frank which was the singular legislative response to the 2008 financial debacle. Mind you, his political mentor, Mitt Romney of Bain Capital and $100 million trust fund for the kids fame loved nothing more than to buy a solid productive corporate entity only to sell it for parts and profit.

My point being that there is a possible meeting of the minds, liberal and conservative, the AOC and Bernie supporting crowd with conservative "America First-ers" on the point addressed by the author- we need to build for the long haul not for the short term profit of the few.

Keep writing!

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Paula Mae's avatar

“We've created a system where money chases money in endless circles, completely divorced from building anything of value.”

This is so spot on. I used to describe it this way: We’ve monitized everything to the point that monitization is pointless - and harming us.

The beauty of choosing to build something that matters, is that people will want to be a part of it. To be a cog in the wheel of something great or needed, is to feel sated from meaningful work. Very little work today feels meaningful or beneficial to society, and if it does, it often comes with the stress of survival-level living, which leads to the insidious “hack” and “hustle” game.

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