Jamie Arbib discusses how major societal problems are inherent to the system rather than failures of it.
Climate change. Inequality. Exploitation. We have been trying to fix them for 50 years. The machine keeps running. Jamie Arbib, co-founder of RethinkX and co-author of Stellar, makes a case that most people are not ready to hear: these problems are not failures of the system. They are the system. An extractive production model built on scarce external inputs- land, labor, capital- generates competition by definition. And competition at civilizational scale produces exploitation as a feature, not a bug.