Does the world make sense to you? As economic and political systems collapse around us, isn’t this time for Quakers to speak out? Isn’t this the time to replace unjust systems with those that serve justice, i.e., LANDBACK, Mutual Aid, and the abolition of police and prisons?
Category: Economics
Decolonial Journey 17 – This is the question
I believe we must stop our complacency and complicity in accepting the ongoing injustices of colonization.
The center cannot hold
At the collective level, a loss of sensemaking erodes shared cultural and value structures and renders us incapable of generating the collective wisdom necessary to solve complex societal problems like those described above. When that happens the centre cannot hold. James Allen
Commodities
As I watch the Trump administration dismantle our government before our eyes, it is clear we can no longer expect the government to serve us and our needs.
Weaponizing tariffs
The past week's trade policy showdown triggered outrage in Mexico and Canada. Spectators at National Hockey League and NBA games in Canada over the weekend booed the U.S. national anthem.
Prepare for Implosion
Tariffs hurt people, and the people they hurt the most are those who have the least. In this regard, while attempting to lay off the entire government is austerity, deciding you’re going to have 25% less stuff (which is another way to think about 25% tariffs, at an equivalent price level), is going to result in chaos, a kind which most living Americans have never really seen. We’re talking 1930s level consequences.
What happens to the money?
We can object to many of these policies on grounds of the impacts on social services, or being unjust, but I think that when the actual negative impact of these policies is felt by the public, that will be far more likely to result in resistance to those policies.