What doesn’t thrive on its own is quality education for all; the returns arrive after long delay and are hard to measure. Or economic on-ramps for hopeful strivers; there’s no dollar value on aspiration. Or stronger communities and organizations; they require expensive person-to-person interaction. Or compassion among the rich and powerful; they can get along without it. In other words, we should focus on those goals for which technology and technocracy are ill suited: serving poor communities, educating the less educated, reforming dysfunctional institutions, organizing marginalized groups,
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