Any HROT posters brave enough to ask real questions and consider massive amounts of data and see the world economic system as it is, how it fails catastrophically, and how it works best?
Piketty has arguably written the most important works in economics in decades. And he shows what the neoliberal Chicago school has worked sooooo hard to ignore or deny or just treat as inevitable. Which it isn’t.
we create myths about the origins of money and debt and economy and then make those myths into justifications for what we then tell ourselves is inevitable.
Duped and deluded we are. Corrupted and cynical we have become. Said Yoda.
we allowed the powerful to force their ideologies upon us. Destructive and even genocidal ideas - capitalism and totalitarian socialism both. The worst possible outcome is to make myth into fact like fundamentalists and cultists do, and deny ourselves the power of critical thinking and critical action.
little that we see and take for granted in society today is sustainable and won’t last long.
Piketty has arguably written the most important works in economics in decades. And he shows what the neoliberal Chicago school has worked sooooo hard to ignore or deny or just treat as inevitable. Which it isn’t.
we create myths about the origins of money and debt and economy and then make those myths into justifications for what we then tell ourselves is inevitable.
Duped and deluded we are. Corrupted and cynical we have become. Said Yoda.
we allowed the powerful to force their ideologies upon us. Destructive and even genocidal ideas - capitalism and totalitarian socialism both. The worst possible outcome is to make myth into fact like fundamentalists and cultists do, and deny ourselves the power of critical thinking and critical action.
little that we see and take for granted in society today is sustainable and won’t last long.
Opinion | Thomas Piketty’s Case for ‘Participatory Socialism’ (Published 2022)
The economist argues for universal inheritance, worker ownership and other policies to close the wealth gap.
www.nytimes.com