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Instead of ‘Abundance,’ Let’s Have a Conversation About ‘Shared Prosperity’ (www.commondreams.org)

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These problems were not created because we don’t build things; rather, they are the outcomes of an economic system built on fabricated scarcity and the doctrine of maximizing profit, exploiting communities of color, and concentrating political and economic power.

It's our inability to share in abundance, our over consumption, and the belief that in order to have more abundance you need to hoard as much of it as possible that truly hurts our planet and our people.

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[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 hours ago

The French Revolution took 100 years to result in liberal democracy. I'm hopeful for a quicker solution but if we can't have one, we must start building guillotines today.