‘CHOOSING LIFE’, EARLY 21ST CENTURY

Today, money has a negative interest rate.
This means that our current system is getting much too topheavy as regards how grossly unequally our society’s wealth is apportioned. That can be seen because the dragon-heaps of wealth which the already-obscenely rich are accumulating have nowhere to be re-invested in the economy because demand is as low as it is.
And the primary reason for that is that we of the 99.5% have very little discretionary income and growing debts. Many of us would be homeless and starving without credit; an alarmingly growing number of us are already in that state.
The place where all that money for which the economy currently has no place has to go — indeed, the only place it can fruitfully go — is down. That is, to the poor and working classes. Except for islands, the old middle class is no more in the USA. Only fully civilized places like Canada and Europe have a fully functional middle class anymore. And if that is to happen here, we need to expand the talk about systemic racism.
We do need to remember that we are all sinners in need of Grace, so we can banish our anxieties about being Good People or not. Those anxieties seem to be a major stumbling block to discussing, analyzing and eventually dismantling systemic racism. And that dismantling needs to happen for us to regenerate our country and our society.
That idle money is needed for daycare centers, upgrading of public education, ‘greening’ our society in ways such as switching to cleaner and renewable forms of energy, from extractive to regenerative agriculture, restoration and indeed…