The System Will Not Return to "Normal," and That's Good; We Can Do Better

March 21, 2020

Essential home lockdown reading.

The pandemic is revealing to all what many of us have known for a long time: the status quo was designed to fail and so its failure was not just predictable but inevitable.

We've propped up a dysfunctional, wasteful and unsustainable system by pouring trillions of dollars in borrowed money down a multitude of ratholes to avoid a reckoning and a re-set. And very predictably, that's the "solution" to the unraveling triggered by the pandemic: borrow more trillions and pour most of it down the same old ratholes.

Here's what we should be talking about: the entire global system desperately needs a re-set. We can do better, and we should do better. That's what I've been writing about for the past 12 years.

To further the discussions we should be having about doing better , I'm cutting 30% off the price of seven of my books: ebooks are now $5, print books are now $10.

Every book has a free summary/sample page where you can find out more about the contents.

What better way to spend the weeks/months of lockdown than reading about the better future we need and deserve? To buy a book, click on the cover below:

The Nearly Free University and The Emerging Economy: The Revolution in Higher Education Reconnecting higher education, livelihoods and the real economy

This book outlines ways we can provide a superior college education for 10%-20% of the current (unaffordable) cost.

Why Things Are Falling Apart and What We Can Do About It

Our financial-political-social system has been rotten to the core for two decades. It doesn't have to be this way.

Resistance, Revolution, Liberation: A Model for Positive Change

The credo of liberation:

"I no longer care if the power centers of our society--the distant, fortified castles of our financial feudal system—are changed by my actions, for I am liberated by the act of resistance. I am no longer complicit in perpetuating fraudulent feudalism and the pathology of concentrated power. I no longer covet signifiers of membership in the Upper Caste that serves the plutocracy. I am liberated from self-destructive consumerist-State financialization and the delusion that debt servitude and obedience to sociopathological Elites serve my self-interests."

An Unconventional Guide to Investing in Troubled Times

Written 9 years ago, the precepts of social capital and controlling your capital are even more relevant today.

A Radically Beneficial World: Automation, Technology and Creating Jobs for All: The Future Belongs to Work That Is Meaningful

We desperately need a profound re-set on the way we work, pay for work and prioritize what work gets done.

Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic

Our political system and the economy it controls both need to be decentralized and relocalized.

Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power and A.I. in a Traumatized World

The promise of technology has been harnessed to widen the immense gaps in wealth and power between the super-rich and the rest of us. It doesn't have to be this way: AI and technology could restore some balance to an ecologically endangered world if we change the predatory economic-political power structure.

If you want a dash of escapist fiction, you might like The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher .

To buy a book, click on the cover:

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My recent books:

Audiobook edition now available:
Will You Be Richer or Poorer?: Profit, Power, and AI in a Traumatized World ($13)
(Kindle $6.95, print $11.95) Read the first section for free (PDF) .

Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic ($6.95 (Kindle), $12 (print), $13.08 ( audiobook ): Read the first section for free (PDF) .

The Adventures of the Consulting Philosopher: The Disappearance of Drake $1.29 (Kindle), $8.95 (print); read the first chapters for free (PDF)

Money and Work Unchained $6.95 (Kindle), $15 (print) Read the first section for free (PDF).
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