Slow Democracy; Local investing; and VBSR’s Fall Conference

We seek not to destroy capitalism, nor to reform it, but to transcend it – to consciously and rapidly evolve past it.

This fall, as we face the most consequential elections of my lifetime (all 71 years of it), rights that working people once upon a time fought and died for — the eight-hour day, a legal minimum wage, protections against child labor — are, in effect, back on the ballot.

I believe we are careening toward a biophysical and cultural crisis that will very likely destroy money — along with a great many other things. But I also believe that we are falling toward abundance again.