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>Some times it feels like we're re-arranging deck chairs

That's because we are. Action on this should feel at least as global, as desperate and as uncomfortable as what was done during the pandemic. It should have a very tangible economic impact, because the measures require a big reorganizing of the economy. Which is why nothing is being done about it.

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I recall briefly holding a spark of hope that the lockdowns would convince enough of us that altering our economic system drastically was possible and that we wouldn’t all die in breadlines or something.

But boy does capitalism have its chokehold on our imagination. Economists, academic and arm-chair alike, seem to think our current system is a fundamental law of the universe like thermodynamics or something.

Ah well. As always it seems what we believe is more influential and important than what is real.