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“Money has been the oil that has kept the wheels of society turning and allowed the complexity of our present civilization to develop, but credit, the centralized creation of money, interest, and particularly compound interest, have seriously destabilized the relationship between money and the goods and services, or wealth, it originally represente
... See moreSacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life,”45 and sometimes the solution: we need a “Marshall Plan for the Earth.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
CHAPTER 7 INVEST IN ENDING POVERTY
Matthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash
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Now is the time to reinvent consumer finance with the same spirit of creativity. We should learn to do for hunting individuals in the Entrepreneurial Age what Henry Goldman did for retailers a century ago: provide them with access to capital not based on what they own (the old paradigm of homeownership for settlers), but on what they might earn in
... See moreNicolas Colin • Hedge: A Greater Safety Net for the Entrepreneurial Age
that would cut child poverty in half or give all Americans access to a doctor, they suck their teeth and ask, “But how can we afford it?” How can we afford it? What a sinful question. What a selfish, dishonest question, one asked as if the answer wasn’t staring us straight in the face. We could afford it if we allowed the IRS to do its job. We coul
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
Where the harm is almost certain, Congress does nothing. Where the harm is at best contested, Congress races to the rescue.