Systems Thinking About Thinking Systems
Typically, when I write about American politics, I start from an economic vantage point—dissecting theory and describing mechanisms of how material interests, class dynamics, and resource distribution shape our political divides. Today, I want to do the opposite: instead of analyzing how economic systems drive political behavior, I’m examining how fundamental ideological beliefs about social membership shape our economic and political choices.
AI systems face a fundamental paradox. They depend entirely on quality information for training, yet they’re systematically destroying the economic infrastructure that creates that information.
The Opportunity Economy Toolkit gives you 10 concrete tools to decode economic propaganda, counter wealth extraction arguments, and build the political movement for an economy where genuine competition thrives and everyone has security to take risks.
For fifty years, oligarchs and concentrated wealth interests have systematically conditioned all Americans to accept artificial limits on our collective power. I reveal that we can organize together to build restoration.