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It’s Not the Economy That’s Broken
This problem goes way below the money and into the mindset.
Hate to break it to y’all, but those rising US jobs numbers and a booming stock market are not telling any sort of hopeful truth about the future. Not by a long shot. Just wait till the covers get ripped off the roiling mess underneath.
TLDR: Any economic system that separates itself from the laws of nature (i.e. circular sustainability) is doomed to fail, no matter what “the numbers” say. The numbers, my friends, are just made up.
May I politely suggest, it’s not just our global economy that's broken, but rather the many false premises upon which it is built?
Building Back Better using the same mindset that got us into this mess in the first place is just going to hasten our demise. Because the whole crisis is directly related to the philosophy of the economic system as a whole. That linear growth is required to sustain a system of ever-expanding, limitless potential.
That’s simply not how things work here.
We have built our systems on the false premise that humans are masters of the planet, and we can do whatever we want, however we want, whenever we want to get and take…
