Hello everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is philosophize this.

Thanks to everyone that makes this show a possibility in the world.

So we've given quite a bit of time the last several episodes of the show to

anti-capitalism, post-capitalism. It's been fun. But let's talk about some philosophers who think

it's possible to move things into a better place, you know, without overthrowing the economic, political,

religious dimension to most people's lives in capitalism.

Let's talk about how to do something from within.

Now there's one way to start talking about that,

where this turns into a show where I just sit around talking about forward-thinking economic policy.

Oh boy, do an episode on

reform in the tax code, do a couple on subsidies and and common sense regulations.

But there's a sense in which I'd be a bit too conservative. I'd have to change the name of the show to economize this, not philosophize this.

But the good news is, there's another level of change that's possible in capitalist economies,

where it's not about reforming the existing way we're doing things with all the same tools we have right now.

The other way to change things is to rethink the entire orientation of a capitalist society altogether,

to think of capitalism as the engine, and what needs to change is the direction that it's

moving us in.

See, to other thinkers out there, regardless of the economic system that underlies the Western

world right now, what's going to change things for the better

is going to be a fundamental change in people's thinking. It's going to be a change in the ways

people think about what it means to be a part of a society and how they see the social relations

that make their society what it is.

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