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Start by watching this video below the first paragraph here. I did. I was actually pretty impressed. Paul Tudor Jones is worth about $4 billion, give or take (him personally). He’s at TED basically saying, “You know what? Capitalism has been great to me, but I think we need to rethink it, because it’s fundamentally ripping apart the fabric of our society.” I don’t know if society can be shredded by anything larger than war or genocide, per se, but in general I think income inequality is going to be the issue of the next 50 years (um, that and drought). You got people already saying our trust in each other — as humans — is inherently eroded, and I’m not sure what all happens when we start automating jobs left and right (if you think that’s not gonna happen, you’re wrong, because people will always chase profits over “I want my friends to have jobs and lives”).
So you got this mega-capitalist billionaire up there saying “The system that minted me is flawed,” right? And it seems kinda cool. But then you dig a little deeper. And it’s maybe one of those “rich people can often talk out of both sides of their…
