Brilliant!

Fantastic talk, thanks! I've shared with several online sites. Any plans for a USA book tour?

Agree totally at the non-productive former traditional approach in the social services....Sustainable development strategy is critical

I do recomend learning modern monetary theory from Stephanie kelton, Warren mosler or Randal Wray. Stephanie introduces a good video on it to look up. Talks about the deficit myth and public purse and such. MMT answers the question “how do you pay for it?” And helps the debate become wider. Note central banks loose out in MMT, because they are the current winners, but largely MMT is just a description of how the system already works. If ray dalio can say that MMT is inevitable, it’s worth looking at.

This talk is full of some astounding statements, but one of the worst is, "...we have this crisis about who should care... and we don't know." I've rarely heard of such dystopian cynicism, even from conservative misers. Clearly we should all care for each other, and also still give quite a lot of our sympathy for those of us, the sociopaths, who cannot be bothered lift a hand to care because they are the most phreakin miserable of all of us. The political economic system is full of structural violence for sure, and that has to surely change, but what we can always do no matter what the system we live in, is to care for each other, and at least care in tangible ways for everyone around us. That's what the best people, even those living in poverty, do every day, even though they cannot give much, they care as much as they can because otherwise their life would be even more miserable than society makes it. The most hospitable people I've known were in the poorest countries I have visited. The critical thing is that is not a causative association, the core of caring is not poverty, it is selflessness, and anyone can train themselves to be more selfless even the wealthy, and we need systems that make it easier for everyone to be more selfless because many who gain wealth cannot seem to manage it themselves. We need to educate ourselves and especially younger generations who have the innocence, to give and care for others before they are in need of government welfare. It's like an inoculation against capitalism, which is needed in the short term during the slow agonising self-destruction of capitalism.

“Resistance dosent look avert, it looks like this use of (new and borrowed from change effort) language where it’s covering the same thing”. Resistance = borrowing the language, but changing nothing.

I’m a little unsettled that again we have a person who is/appears to be white and middle class who is being set up as a mini prophet of something that is widely collated from social action and radical health movements worldwide and who has a relatively tiny track record in British practice. She of course critiques the desire for profile and leaders - any maybe I don’t mind the catalyst if it gets the work done - but how can radical help work if we don’t see, even at this nascent stage, working class, poor, not-officially-educated people up on the stage. Feminist movement has said these things, Racial justice; co-operative; First Nations; anarchist; queer; syndicalists, and others, have made these very same points from early into the welfare state and rather than just name checking them superficially Hillary could direct people to her source material and antecedents better.

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on point.