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Inequality and the Collapse of Privilege
8,900 words, 75 pages ($3.95, Kindle ebook, $6.95 print)
Table of Contents
Introduction: What is Privilege?
Overview of Privilege and Destabilization
The Importance of Eliminating Privilege
Chapter One: Understanding Privilege
Chapter Two: Privilege, Inequality and Poverty
Chapter Three: Privilege and Our Mode of Production
Chapter Four: The Nature of Financial Privilege
Chapter Five: The Nature of Political Privilege
Chapter Six: Narratives that Enforce Privilege
Chapter Seven: The Nature of Social Privilege
Chapter Eight: The End Game: Crisis and the Collapse of Privilege
Why Our Status Quo Failed and Is Beyond Reform
27,600 words, 90 pages ($3.95, Kindle ebook, $6.95 print;
audiobook $5.95)
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Table of Contents: (from
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CHAPTER ONE
Humanity s Six Integrated Problems
Entrenched Poverty
An Economic Model of Expanding Consumption in a World of Finite Resources
An Economic Model that Uses Wages to Distribute the Output of the Economy
A Political-Economic Model of Central States Dominated by Elites
An Economic Model that Depends on Credit (Borrowing from the Future) to
Fund Today s Consumption
A Crisis of Purpose and Meaning
Is the Status Quo Solving These Problems, Or Is It the Problem?
CHAPTER TWO
How Money Is Created and Distributed
The Way We Create Money Creates Inequality/Poverty
The Illusory Promise of the Gold Standard
The Limits of Blockchain Crypto-Currencies
The Moral Foundation of Money
CHAPTER THREE
The Eight Types of Capital
The Scarcest Capital Is the Most Valuable Capital
We Optimize What We Measure
CHAPTER FOUR
The Limitations of the Market and the State
Limitations of the State and Universal Basic Income
Limitations of the Market
The Market, State and Labor
The Limits of Profit as a Determinant of Value
The Unsustainability of State Social Welfare Spending
The Neoliberal/State Fantasy of Taxable Profits and Wages
The Destabilizing Consequences of Globalization
Ownership Capital and Shared Capital
The Tyranny of Price
The Fundamental Failure of the Market and State
CHAPTER FIVE
The Failure of Economic Orthodoxy
The Failure of the Either/Or Orthodoxies of Capitalism or Marxism
The Pathologies of the Market
Derealization and the Destruction of Authenticity
The Institutionalization and Internalization of Perverse Incentives
Institutionalized Powerlessness and the Crisis of the Individual
The Consumerist Destruction of the Authentic Self
The Structure of Collapse
Why the Status Quo Is Beyond Reform
The Way Forward
