I'm Marianne Williams and welcome to the Transform Podcast where we will examine the forces of chaos that threaten to distress

the acts of love that can make the whole thing transform.

The economic system in America today is a system of economic tyranny.

The economic system that prevails in America today does not just ignore the poor.

It does not just turn a blind eye to the poor, there is a systemic war on the poor in America.

And there is a reason for that.

And that is because the kind of capitalism that is being practiced in America today,

an unfettered capitalism with no sense of moral or ethical responsibility

to anything beyond its fiduciary responsibility to its stockholders,

with no sense of moral or ethical responsibility to the larger stakeholders of the workers

and the communities and the environment needs cheap labor.

It needs cheap labor. This isn't a matter of, come on guys, don't be so greedy.

This isn't a matter of, come on guys, don't be so selfish.

This is a matter of us standing up and recognizing in America we don't do aristocracy.

We're living at a time of historic change obviously, a time when things have to change

or chaos will ensue unlike anything any of us have ever seen before.

I think that the human race is being challenged to evolve on some very fundamental levels

or we will not have a sustainable future.

You can't talk about the forces of chaos that are pulling us apart

without talking about economics and you can't talk about the forces of economics

that are pulling us apart without talking about capitalism.

Get this, the richest 1% controls more wealth now than in any time in more than a half century.

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