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Martin Bassani's avatar

The deadly fault of the current system is insistence on keeping intact the very power structure that has caused our current reality. The results of any system are largely determined by its most fundamental aims. If the aims are further concentration of both economic and political power in a tiny oligarchical minority, then the results will approximate those aims. No solutions are possible from the within the system. We must first, in one way or another, take away their power to set systemic goals, followed by redefining the systemic aims to serve We The People. In order to achieve this we must undergo an alchemic transformation from We The Sheeple to We The people. Apparently this is an act proving to be as difficult as turning lead into gold. ;-)

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“Outsourcing of vital manufacturing, decay of infrastructure maintenance and improvement, privatization of public goods, and loss of machine tool powers simply resulted in the transfer of wealth into the hands of a small elite, and the stripping of nation states from the economic sovereignty they once enjoyed.”

Matt, you have referenced the privatization of public goods in several articles and that notion seems counterintuitive to me. Can you give a couple of examples of that and how it transferred wealth? Every time I read it, it sounds like you’re advocating for socialism of some sort, but I can’t figure it out. Thanks!!!

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