Fed up with capitalism’s destruction and inequality, there is a growing movement to build a new model based on “people’s prosperity.”
Capitalism
Capitalism’s endless economic growth prioritizes the individual over community and creates extreme inequality. But it doesn’t have to be that way.
To reject the growth mindset, we must divorce ourselves from careerism.
Colonization, through genocide, land theft, and the imposition of private property, has dispossessed Indigenous and Black peoples of their homelands across the continents for generations.
Is there a way we can be critical of our cultures of consumption, while also preserving the spirit of abundance?
“When I think of the many ways we—laborers, neighbors, people in community with one another—are failing each other, I think first and foremost of the institution of work as we know it.”
Frugality isn’t just a virtue practiced by bygone generations. It can also be a break with an all-consuming capitalist system.
The pursuit of pleasure in our modern capitalist society is inextricably linked to money.
Philanthrocapitalism enables the destruction of nature and the erosion of democracy.
“Could it be that the fragmentation of our relations has been a fundamental cause of our exhaustion?”
The Bush administration used the attacks to label dissent and protests against international trade agreements as terrorism. Now movements have recovered their lost momentum.
If we’re going to survive as a species and heal the Earth, we’ll need to drastically cut back on our consumption.
Money has become concentrated in very few hands. Now some experts are considering that money itself may be part of the problem.
Instead of conspicuous consumption, try the conspicuous sharing of “Buy Nothing.”
Prioritizing short-term profits over everything else has created a system that is consuming itself to extinction. Here’s what an economy that valued human life and the planet would look like.
A former economic hit man describes his part in setting up what he calls a “Death Economy.”
Our social safety net and the government’s response so far have been woefully inadequate for addressing a national emergency.
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