If we truly want to be liberated from insecurity, we need to redefine security for ourselves. The real threat comes not from caring for our fellow citizens but from the systems and entities that undermine the public good for private gain: the unregulated financial sector creating derivatives markets capable of crashing the economy, lenders willing to destroy people’s lives to collect a debt, employers colluding to cheapen the price of labour, fossil-fuel companies profiting from the atmosphere’s destruction, privatizers who want to enclose the welfare commons. Commercial insurance and
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