A common sense economic agenda
Above all, it’s about truly shaping the future. Whatever the outcome of the current administration, many people expect the Democratic Party to strike a determined counter-attack, polarizing the debate on the safety net even more. Instead of looking back at the past with nostalgia, the opportunity that we must all seize together is to imagine a Grea
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Politics itself is just a matter of creating the conditions for growing the economy by allowing the magic of the marketplace to do its work. All other hopes and dreams—of equality, of security—are to be sacrificed for the primary goal of economic productivity. But global economic performance over the last thirty years has been decidedly mediocre.
David Graeber • A practical utopians guide to the coming collapse – David Graeber
Everyone—the US, the UK, continental Europe—needs a Great Safety Net 2.0 tailored for the new working class. This is what it is all about: creating many jobs in proximity services while improving the condition of workers in the related sectors and making the services they perform more affordable.
Nicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
what we need to do is rethink this sense of unfettered capitalism in an age of globalization and say, no, we still have to value community, we still have to value place, and we need to have a capitalist system that allows for enough state intervention, that helps places survive and thrive.