"Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today’s Crises" by Marjorie Kelly
May 30, 2024
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Marjorie Kelly, from The Democracy Collaborative, discusses the bias toward wealth in the economy, exploring issues like wealth concentration, profit prioritization over social and ecological concerns, and the shift towards purpose-driven business models. She also dives into the negative impacts of financial extraction and the need for economic transparency.
The overwhelming concentration of wealth drains societal resilience and exacerbates issues like debt, job insecurity, and low wages.
Combatting financial extraction necessitates redefining economic success, prioritizing wealth circulation, and developing strategies for broad economic prosperity.
Deep dives
Challenges of Financial Wealth
Financial wealth is a pervasive issue affecting society, draining resilience due to the overwhelming concentration of wealth, leading to financialization. Families struggle with debt, job insecurity, low wages, and limited assets, highlighting a dangerous imbalance of wealth distribution that hinders progress and exacerbates societal issues.
Building Resilience Through Local Ownership
The extractive economy, driven by wealth supremacy, undermines society's well-being, with financial institutions exacerbating wealth concentration. Counteractive measures, like Cincinnati's bond issuance to buy houses from private equity, promote local resilience, affordable housing, and community ownership as potent solutions to combat financialization.
Redefining Economics for a Democratic Future
To dismantle financial extraction, redefining economic success beyond GDP is crucial. The financial sector's disproportionate growth compared to the real economy leads to wealth skimming. Addressing these disparities requires new national metrics to reveal the impact of financialization and develop strategies that prioritize wealth circulation and broad economic prosperity over wealth concentration.
Marjorie Kelly, a distinguished senior fellow at The Democracy Collaborative, argues that a bias toward wealth has warped the economy. Here's what we can do about it.
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