Toward a World that Works for Everyone
Social scientists have the concept of “social capital.” What does it refer to? Business journalist Will Kenton defines it: “The term social capital refers to a positive product of human interaction. The positive outcome may be tangible or intangible and may include useful information, innovative ideas, and future opportunities. It can be used to describe […]
I’d now like to turn our attention for one post to the key switch in the financial paradigm from accumulating profit to sharing. I used to have trouble imagining how finances would work if we didn’t lend money. What would be the inducement for one person to give money to another? But of course I […]
CBS Sunday Morning, July 12, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/ybqrwtb8 September 1988, Shreveport, Louisiana: 20-year-old William David McKinney had been fatally shot by a white teenager. Racial tensions, already simmering, boiled over. In the aftermath, anger, frustration and pleas for change. The city was described as a “powder keg.” Thirty-two years later, that powder keg is exploding with […]
Events are happening faster than we can write articles on, so we’re switching to a summary format for some articles. Some subjects may be too uncomfortable to read. We ask you to use discernment in your choice. Skirting the meme war does not affect the subjects we cover; only the sources we use to cover […]
(Continued from Part 1, yesterday.) The point I wanted to make however is: what do we do in the face of this constant change to maintain our equilibrium, our balance? Things are going faster than I can keep up with. What do we do? I can only say what I do, which I’ve been doing […]
If we were to see the ending of the careers of corrupt politicians, of big business’s control over the finances of the world, of the military-industrial complex’s grip on the world, etc., I think we could all agree that we’d be in a time of terrific, even revolutionary change. We may be saying to ourselves, […]
Coronavirus Is a Historic Trigger Event. Now Is the Time for a Social Movement to Rise Paul Engler, Yes! Magazine, April 6, 2020 https://tinyurl.com/torolhg We can build a powerful people’s response to provide care in our communities and reshape the limits of what is politically possible. There are times in history when sudden events — […]
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/connect/togetherathome/ Take the Pledge to Stay at Home In the face of lockdowns and losses, it’s easy to feel helpless — but there are things we can all do to beat coronavirus. From taking care to wash our hands, to staying at home, to calling on governments, big business and billionaires to step up, it’s […]
A roundup of articles on the status of the Coronavirus and ways we can help…. Folks, this groundswell for UBI is our best chance to bring it in – and not just in one country, but worldwide. Spanish Government Aims to Roll Out Basic Income ‘Soon’ By Rodrigo Orihuela, Bloomberg, April 5, 2020 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-05/spanish-government-aims-to-roll-out-basic-income-soon […]
This is a long but stimulating article. It’s a reflection on what we can achieve when humanity is united. The Coronation Charles Eisenstein, March 20, 2020 https://charleseisenstein.org/essays/the-coronation/?_page=3 For years, normality has been stretched nearly to its breaking point, a rope pulled tighter and tighter, waiting for a nip of the black swan’s beak to snap […]
Denmark’s Idea Could Help the World Avoid a Great Depression “We are freezing the economy.” Derek Thompson, The Atlantic, March 21, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/03/denmark-freezing-its-economy-should-us/608533/ While the White House and lawmakers haggle over the terms of an emergency economic-stabilization package, Denmark has gone big—very, very big—to defeat the unprecedented challenge of the coronavirus. This week, the Danish […]
U.K. government will pay 80% of workers’ wages to keep them employed during the coronavirus shutdown Can the U.S. come up with anything nearly as generous? Talib Visram, Fast Company, March 20, 2020 https://www.fastcompany.com/90480396/the-u-k-government-will-pay-80-workers-wages-to-keep-them-employed-during-the-coronavirus-shutdown It’s a remarkable and peculiar day in Britain when it’s announced that all pubs are closing, but that ends up not […]
March 18, 2020, spiritlibrary.com https://tinyurl.com/r663xvl Dear Ones, This is the time we have been waiting for; the time of the great external change is happening. We have been preparing for this for many, many years, and so it has come to pass. Now is the time to use all of the tools and teachings that […]
The fear of dying or of causing the death of another – and this fear facing us and every human being around us – has galvanized the world. It has gotten the world’s attention in a way that previous chaos did not. Not the whole world’s attention. Coronavirus is happening everywhere. Everyone is facing the […]
OK, OK, a little chest thumping going on here…. But this does show (1) that it can be done and (2) how quickly it can be done in this age of social media. I hope the practice of caremongering grows. Compassion by any name is what society needs right now. Coronavirus: Kind Canadians start ‘caremongering’ […]
