System
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It's an operating
system.
And this is why it's very important to think of American capitalism as an operating
system
and not as an ideology.
We don't have a working
system
here yet.
What you're seeing here is a water filtration
system.
They were defecting a caste
system
known as Jim Crow.
This caste
system
was so arcane that it was actually against the law for a black person and a white person to merely play checkers together in Birmingham.
This caste
system
was so arcane that in courtrooms throughout the South there was actually a black Bible and an altogether separate white Bible to swear to tell the truth on in court.
The very word of God was segregated in the caste
system
of the Jim Crow South.
Such that every four days, somewhere in the American South, every four days an African American was lynched for some perceived breach of protocol in this caste
system
in the decades leading up to the start of the Great Migration.
This caste
system
had been put in place for many, many reasons.
Kids in the 12th grade: not exactly all that enthusiastic about the American government
system.
And everything that everybody is talking about today isn't possible if we keep having an educational
system
that does not value these qualities, because we won't get there with a standardized test, and we won't get there with a culture of one right answer.
And we were doing so for thousands of years, whether it's when we hunted in packs, or farmed in cooperatives, before this big
system
called hyper-consumption came along and we built these fences and created out own little fiefdoms.
Now, the third
system
is product-service systems.
Now in the old consumer system, our reputation didn't matter so much, because our credit history was far more important that any kind of peer-to-peer review.
Now as a closing thought, I believe we're actually in a period where we're waking up from this humongous hangover of emptiness and waste, and we're taking a leap to create a more sustainable
system
built to serve our innate needs for community and individual identity.
But if we look at asphalt as our growth, then we realize that all we're doing is destroying the planetary's fundamental underlying operating
system.
And by presenting a really strong economic case, they convinced the L.A. government that replacing that asphalt with trees and other greenery, that the schools themselves would save the
system
more on energy than they spend on horticultural infrastructure.
So ultimately, 20 million square feet of asphalt was replaced or avoided, and electrical consumption for air-conditioning went down, while employment for people to maintain those grounds went up, resulting in a net-savings to the system, but also healthier students and schools
system
employees as well.
Working-class and poor urban Americans are not benefiting economically from our current food
system.
It allies in a really positive and economically viable food
system.
They almost brought the entire financial
system
down.
You design a set of rules that will make sure that the particular reason why the financial
system "
almost-collapse" can't happen again.
These are people who, being forced to operate in a
system
that demands rule-following and creates incentives, find away around the rules, find a way to subvert the rules.
So these are little ordinary, everyday heroes, and they're incredibly admirable, but there's no way that they can sustain this kind of activity in the face of a
system
that either roots them out or grinds them down.
These are people who are looking not to dodge the
system'
s rules and regulations, but to transform the system, and we talk about several.
His family was kicked out of their apartment, and the welfare
system
was threatening to take away his kids.
They wanted to do something about what we all know, namely the revolving door of the criminal justice
system.
Anyone would glom onto a criminal justice
system
that has this kind of a record.
To say that we faced high doses of skepticism in those early years is just a huge understatement, but we were so convinced that we might be able to make this work that we chipped away with incremental modifications to this
system.
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