Why Capitalism Can’t Save Us | Jason Hickel on Climate, AI & Empire (Better Future 003)

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1️⃣5️⃣ If poverty blocks the sky…
If bad law clouds the horizon…
If despair dulls motivation…

Then there’s less looking up.
Less discovery of the moon.
Slower solving of the next great challenges.

Agency is substantially diminished when survival is in question.

#EndingPoverty #ObjectiveCompassion #Nomodynamy #Concupiscere #FreeWill #Growth

John Angell James, Congregationalist minister in England, writes on Christian charity. Daily performance of little good, bad deeds changes the character of a neighborhood.

Most Americans don’t know their neighbors and are more likely to meet them at the courthouse. Many may be expecting gold stars from God simply for being a non-negative neighbor who keeps to themselves. But what kinds of good could you do every day?

#christian #endingpoverty #elevatetogether #caritas #calvinistic

Aaron Burr’s cousin writes on the Last Judgment from Matthew 25. He says our mercy is not the only criteria by which humans are accepted or rejected by God. But it is the foremost in human excellence and divine estimation. Its opposite is the highest in divine abhorrence.

A pastor in my youth wouldn’t allow any interpretation like this : it was just nope to socialism and nope to works righteousness. Really, no meaning.

#christian #rebuildgaza #endingpoverty #dailybibleverse #peace

In the face of the world’s greatest challenges, it is our shared responsibility to stand up and make a difference. UK foreign aid cuts have cast a dark shadow over the lives of thousands of families in extreme poverty. This is Abiyot’s story | Amy Stoneman

#EndingPoverty
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