- Much of today’s “social change” is about steering changes away from solutions that harm the wealthy
- Entering the world of money to address the problems caused by money
- Ask what has been done before asking what can be done
- “Win-win” is about solving problems without addressing root causes
- Americans are more productive than ever, but that productivity is captured by the elite
- Connecting networks (like Uber and Facebook) are a double standard if they can dictate terms and disavow control
- Voices of the critics are neglected while we embrace the voices that “ride the wave”
- “Thought leader”
- Focus on the victim, not the perpetrator
- Personalize the political
- Learn to zoom in and tell narratives
- Beliefs naturally shift in accord with interests
- The powerful benefit the most from lawlessness
- We are often trying to solve our problems with the same tools that made them
- Never ask the wealthy to do less harm
- Carnegie argued that the rich should be allowed to make as much money as possible, any way possible, and then give away that money better than the poor would
- Some where’s vs Every where’s
- Some where’s motivate us to action and hide the scale of the problems
- Globalist have “correct” answers that are arrived at by consensus not democracy
- Politics is meant to create ideas that are easy to like but difficult to love
- Globalization is, in part, trying to bypass or compensate for local politics that are not working
- Private investments can crowd out public funding
- “You should do it because it is the right thing to do, but it is not enough to do the right thing, so it is also good business”
- “I can speak in the name of my child, but other people are not your children”
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