“Once I know that I can remember
whenever I like, I forget.”
—Umberto Eco
“Once I know that I can remember whenever I like, I forget.”
—Umberto Eco
Maybe it's time we just did stuff instead of building elaborate Rube Goldberg machines in the hopes of luring the market’s animal sentiments into doing it for us.
- How can we solve the student debt crisis? Well, we could cancel student debt and regulate the price of education, either directly or through free state college.
- How can we solve America's heath-debt crisis? We could cancel health debt and create Medicare For All.
- How can we solve America's homelessness crisis? We could build houses and let homeless people live in them.
- How can we solve America's wage-stagnation crisis? We could raise the minimum wage and/or create a federal jobs guarantee.
- How can we solve America's workplace abuse crisis? We could allow workers to unionize.
- How can we solve America's price-gouging greedflation crisis? With price controls and/or windfall taxes.
- How can we solve America's inequality crisis? We could tax billionaires.
- How can we solve America's monopoly crisis? We could break up monopolies.
- How can we solve America's traffic crisis? We could build public transit.
- How can we solve America's carbon crisis? We can regulate carbon emissions.