It almost feels so simple as to be inadequate, but the little things we do to build relationships with and look out for our friends and neighbors are the seeds of a better way of living. I know a lot of people get worried when someone talks about redistributing wealth, so I always like to point out that our economy has been designed by the wealthy to redistribute wealth upward to the 1%. Robert Reich explains it very well with the example of corporations being able to absolve themselves of debt through bankruptcy (without affecting the owner's personal assets), but individuals not being able to avoid paying student loans by declaring bankruptcy. These are rules designed with a specific purpose to benefit the wealthy and all we're saying is we should change them to benefit those in need, not those who have.
This is against the larger backdrop that we are destroying life on the planet through deforestation, through massive mines that leak poisons like lead and cobalt into water, overfishing most marine fish stocks, and degrading farmland through poor irrigation practices that kill soils by salts accumulation. However we shift production and distribution, these will still be burning issues if we are to support 8 billion people on the planet. Even the production of electric vehicles will require huge mining operations for rare earth metals that are likely to be destructive if not very carefully managed.
The timing of this felt so affirming for me! Thank you for writing and sharing this ♥️
It almost feels so simple as to be inadequate, but the little things we do to build relationships with and look out for our friends and neighbors are the seeds of a better way of living. I know a lot of people get worried when someone talks about redistributing wealth, so I always like to point out that our economy has been designed by the wealthy to redistribute wealth upward to the 1%. Robert Reich explains it very well with the example of corporations being able to absolve themselves of debt through bankruptcy (without affecting the owner's personal assets), but individuals not being able to avoid paying student loans by declaring bankruptcy. These are rules designed with a specific purpose to benefit the wealthy and all we're saying is we should change them to benefit those in need, not those who have.
This is against the larger backdrop that we are destroying life on the planet through deforestation, through massive mines that leak poisons like lead and cobalt into water, overfishing most marine fish stocks, and degrading farmland through poor irrigation practices that kill soils by salts accumulation. However we shift production and distribution, these will still be burning issues if we are to support 8 billion people on the planet. Even the production of electric vehicles will require huge mining operations for rare earth metals that are likely to be destructive if not very carefully managed.
Thank you for these timely reminders to reshift our focus to community and communal living <3 it affirmed all the reasons why I live the way I do
Yoke, not yolk (unless joke).