Here’s what we have now: a rapidly diminishing natural world, where unfettered resource exploitation is on track to destroy the ecosystems that sustain us; and a broken social order, where some have more resources than they could use in a lifetime while others have almost nothing. And yet, our mode of production tolerates all this because its priority is encouraging corporations to do whatever the hell they want as long as they remain profitable. Things have gotten to the point where the focus of our economic system seems increasingly misaligned with social need — the positives are getting
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