Sublime

the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.

This is the challenge we need to tackle today: revisiting every function that was once performed by the Great Safety Net back when it worked so well. We need to imagine institutions to once again serve the three goals that we should all be obsessed with: making consumer demand steadier, increasing household income, and providing access to

Personnel L’éducation devrait permettre aux jeunes d’appréhender leur monde intérieur autant que le monde qui les entoure.

La productivité et l'enrichissement des nations se paient d'un sacrifice dommageable de valeur intérieure doublé d'un dégoût de soi.

In less than thirty years, “self-help”—once synonymous with mutual aid—has come to be understood not only as distinct from collective action but actually as its opposite.

Demands for recognition without a parallel demand for economic justice is at the heart of why the self is belabored.

Meanwhile, educational and economic meritocracy have merged, to the extent that intellectual achievements without economic added value are regarded as largely worthless.

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

The only way to build wealth is to have a gap between your ego and your income.