We mastered the art of monetizing attention and abandoned the art of building a society. This essay tracks how capital chased engagement while housing, transit, and social supports withered— and lays out a practical agenda to rebuild the floor beneath people, not just the ceiling above wealth. #HousingCrisis #SocialInfrastructure #AttentionEconomy #UrbanPolicy #YIMBY #CommunityWealth #ZoningReform #WorkforceDevelopment #PublicGoods Political Economy, Urban Planning, Housing, Infrastructure, Immigration, Labor/Workforce, Technology & Society, Community Wealth Building, Co‑ops, Public Policy

We perfected attention capture and neglected the infrastructure that makes life livable.

A blueprint for redirecting capital to housing, transit, and training:

thinkingprospectus.substack.com/p/the-misall...

#Housing #Infrastructure #UrbanPolicy #PublicGoods #CommunityWealth

and the land resources that produce their raw materials — all #publicGoods , will be preserved and protected. All this domestic and global chaos, whiteChristian nationalism, & imposed human insecurity is about plunder and concentrating the power to prolong that plunder. [2/3]

Ontario Budgets are Highly Misleading In the lead up to the Ontario provincial Budget, it's useful to flag just how unreliable they have become as a guide to public spending and provincial deficits in recent years under the Ford government. The government has shown a significant ability to increase funding for public programs and healthcare…

Ontario Budgets are Highly Misleading
- bssproj
socialistproject.ca/2026/03/ontario-budgets-...
#PublicGoods #Healthcare

#PublicEducation
#M4A
#MedicareForAll
#ProgressiveTax
#Regulations
#ProtectLaborConsumerCitizen
#CheapHousing
#PublicInfrastructure
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#MinimumBasicNeeds
#Unions
#LivingWage
#SocialSecurity
#NordicModel

These should all be on the Democrat platform.

Twin Threats to Public Medicare Attack One Alberta’s Danielle Smith government launches frontal assault on the Canada Health Act to end single-tier Public Medicare and bring in US private healthcare. The threat to the future of Public Medicare in Ontario and across the country is at an all-time high. After passing legislation to privatize hospitals,…

Twin Threats to Public Medicare
- bssproj
socialistproject.ca/2026/03/twin-threats-to-...
#PublicGoods #Healthcare

It's never not a good day to celebrate #publicgoods in the USA! The most sustained era of public goods development was undoubtedly the New Deal. Check out this site, esp. the interactive map, that details all the ways in which US infrastructure was built in the 1930s and 40s: livingnewdeal.org

Yet even further proof that our federalized public tax dollars must not ever, certainly never routinely, be used to bribe community police squads. Defunding is not ridiculous; it's a critical necessity. Local public funding for local #publicGoods Get the corrupted feds OUT of neighborhoods. [3/3]

The answer, my friend is…

#NordicModel
#Democracy
#Regulations
#PublicEducation
#Unions
#LivingWage
#M4A
#ProgressiveTax
#PublicPensions
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets

Bob Dylan & me.

When both sides chant 'lower tax', the country pays in division As the Coalition reasserts “lower tax” as political identity and Labor rushes to deny the high-tax label, Australian politics is losing the language needed to fund shared purpose, rebuild trust and sustain public life.

When both major parties compete to look “low tax”, politics loses the language – and permission – to fund the public goods that hold society together, Stewart Sweeney writes.
#auspol #TaxPolicy #PublicGoods #SocialCohesion

#NordicModel

#HighRegulations
#ProgressiveTax
#Unions
#RaiseLowWages
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#PublicEducation
#CheapHousing
#M4A
#PublicChildcare
#PublicPensions

Within a more ideal “free market” economy where rules are for all (labor, consumer, citizen & employer) not just the rich.

Scotland’s political parties.

Independence or not.

Nordic model, mixed or market economies.

Rejoin EU or not.
(Has nuance: Labour & Liberal Dems = closer alignment / improved relationship.)

#NordicModel
#ClimateChange
#ProgressiveTax
#M4A
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#PublicEducation
#CheapHousing

Socialism where Capitalism fails & Capitalism where Socialism fails within a Democracy.

Best outcomes.
Happiest people.

#NordicModel
#Unions
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#M4A
#ProgresiveTax
#PublicEducation
#CheaperHousing

https://hdr.undp.org/data-center/human-development-index#/indicies/HDI

“The U.S. has declined on quality of life measures over time.”

No.

We have improved.

But “rank” has declined.

#Inequality
#NordicModel
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#ProgressiveTax
#M4A
#Unions

My posts oft have versions of:

#Inequality
#NordicModel
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#ProgressiveTax
#M4A
#Unions
#Democracy

Trends in top 10% income share: China, U.S., France https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/rise-wealth-private-property-and-income-inequality-china

Trends in bottom 50% income share: China, U.S., France https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/rise-wealth-private-property-and-income-inequality-china

The middle way = Nordic model.

Both the U.S. & China (nearly as bad) have growing inequality.

Trends in top 10% income share: China, U.S., France.

Trends in bottom 50% income share: China,
U.S., France.

#Inequality
#NordicModel
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#ProgressiveTax
#M4A
#Unions
#Democracy

Books are cheaper than therapy and last longer than a movie. Libraries are one of the last free public spaces where you aren't expected to spend money. Go use them. What are you reading right now? 📚 #Library #PublicGoods #Reading #Education #Community

Privateering Our Public Goods

 https://f.mtr.cool/elfeqglxwc

Degrading Rural Fire Departments, Nursing Homes  @GenBeatOnline #publicgoods

Gitcoin — the "public goods" DAO — has 73% of voting power in 5 wallets.

When 5 people decide what's a "public good," is it still public?

#Gitcoin #PublicGoods

"In the end, government either serves the… American citizen, or it serves those who break the laws, cheat the system & seek power & profit...”

-Paraphrase of
DJT 12/17/25

#Democracy
#Unions
#M4A
#PublicEducation
#ProgressiveTax
#LivingWage
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#NordicModel

BasisPointInsight.com - When Legacy is an Externality for a Commercial Ops, Who Should Pay to Sustain it? by TK Arun As Annapurna Bhandar of Chandini Chowk faces closure, can Indian cities take a cue from Paris or San Francisco to protect legacy shops? by TK Arun, BasisPointInsight.com

1/3 Annapurna Bhandar, a sweet shop in Delhi’s Chandni Chowk that’s served generations since 1929, faces closure after a legal setback over a justified hike in rent. It’s not just a business story—it’s the loss of a cultural landmark, a living piece of the city’s memory.
#UrbanEconomics #PublicGoods

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs to more serious, adult principles that elementary kids understand:

expand freedom, reduce suffering & judge by outcomes.

#NordicModel
#Democracy
#LivingWage
#M4A
#PublicEducation
#ProgressiveTax
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets

He stressed how investment in sustainable agri requires a clear & consistent policy direction, notably through #CAP. Market incentives must fairly reward farmers for the #PublicGoods they deliver, so farmers are not left carrying the costs of the transition alone.
#EUAgriFoodDays
🧵 3/4

And #whiteNationalism - including tangential ideologies especially #zionism and any other fascist movements leveraged to dismantle the public, the Dēmos; to redistribute its #publicGoods by means of gimmicks like #charters and #vouchers ; [2/4]

The answer, my friend is…

#Democracy
#M4A
#PublicEducation
#LivingWage
#ProgressiveTax
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#NordicModel

Bob Dylan & me.

Insisting on "holding accountable" the "other team"
is simply a waste of time & energy.

What about real system changes that help Americans?

Do something that helps!

#M4A
#PublicEducation
#Regulations
#ProgressiveTax
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#NordicModel

Karl Polanyi

believed markets were not free. They coerce labor, consumers & citizens.

He sits between Marx on criticisms & Hayek on retaining markets; yet fundamentally opposed to both on their extremes.

#M4A
#PublicEducation
#Regulations
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#Econsky

3-posts

Marx was critical but analytical, mostly describing, but also (poorly) predicting, not prescribing.

Most of his commentary shows why

#Democracy
#M4A
#PublicEducation
#Regulations
#ProgressiveTax
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#NordicModel

IS the best measured outcomes thus-far.

If all of your needs & even wants are met, why would you still predict or prescribe a Revolution?

#M4A
#PublicEducation
#Regulations
#ProgressiveTax
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#NordicModel

So many “Marxists” & “Materialists” & “Communists” demanding (moral & ideal) change, while Marx ONLY described & predicted without aim.

“Classless, stateless” is framed as materially likely, not a moral goal.

#M4A
#PublicEducation
#Regulations
#ProgressiveTax
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#NordicModel

Marx didn’t prescribe change as a (moral) goal.

He analyzed Capitalism & described & predicted that its internal contradictions would produce change.

The change:

#M4A
#PublicEducation
#Regulations
#ProgressiveTax
#PublicGoods
#SafetyNets
#NordicModel