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"Capitalism's defining feature is that most economic activity (meaning production, consumption & distribution) takes place in the private sector with the goal of accumulating private profit. The goal isn't to support human or planetary well-being. It's to accumulate private profit"

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"A lot of us are expressing shock and disbelief and questioning 'how on earth did we get here?' It's important to recognize that much of what we're seeing now is an entirely predictable outcome of our political/economic system of neoliberal capitalism. This was bound to happen and now here we are!"

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"Our current global economic model which is increasingly shrinking the world's middle class, making the poor poorer, the rich richer and the world increasingly on fire is just ONE now demonstrably failing human made system. Others have existed before & will do so again. We're way past due." #

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Everyone needs to see this #Jeffrey_sachs roasts Trump at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum, for not understanding what trade deficits actually are. He said #DementiaDon would flunk his Economics 101 class. He also explains how corrupt our congress is from dark money. Justice Roberts court has created all of this with the disastrous Citizens united decision. Jeffrey Sachs says the US is collapsing with a government run by a king who is ignorant. #Trumpcrash #MadKingTrump youtu.be/gNson4TqUO4?si=i88PsP

"It's always easy to shrug things off by saying 'well that's just how things have always been' except, when it comes to our entirely human constructed global economic system it's categorically untrue. It has NOT always been like this. In 2025 better models need exploring, like the #WellBeingEconomy

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"This is not what a resilient system looks like and the outcomes of each crash reveals further weaknesses within that system, especially as it relates to #Inequality, environmental devastation and of course to the challenge far more massive than any economic system: #ClimateChange."

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The #TrumpCrash of spring 2025 is the 3rd crash in less than 20 years of a global economic system that overwhelmingly favours the rich. We'll do MUCH better with a #WellBeingEconomy for ALL. This month's guest is Lindsay McLaren.bsky.social of the #ParklandInstitute

PODCAST: podcastics.com/episode/357264/

"Boldly getting nothing in return for negotiating against himself over the trade war he started. #Trump ended the day bragging about how the markets had soared and recovered some of what they had lost over the previous days." USA Today yahoo.com/news/tariff-turnarou
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Yahoo News · With tariff turnaround, Trump shows he's the most brilliant president in history | OpinionBy Rex Huppke, USA TODAY