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If we want peace, we have to talk about it more. Not just war. Not just fear. Let’s make peace louder. #TalkPeace #ImNoExpert

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Yup. Seems obvious when it’s in Meme form, doesn’t it?

A plan for change within the system, driven by development of community-owned infrastructure. It's easy to say "we need to tear the whole thing down", but this thread intends to show that there are ways we can shift the balance of power, without starting from scratch.

Before 'recycling' became normal, nobody recycled. Before 'unleaded fuel' became standard, nobody questioned lead in petrol. The next normal is already being prototyped. 'Precycling' — designing waste out before it exists — is one example. What's yours?

How do we move from profit-first to profit-third? We don't fight the old system. We build around it and crowd it out. Co-ops, social enterprises, community businesses — each one a vote for a different incentive structure. imnoexpert.com/peace/how-to...

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The Dunedin study followed 1,000 people from birth to midlife and found that childhood self-control predicted health, wealth, and criminality better than IQ or social class. One variable. Massive implications for how we design schools, support families, and think about potential.

Capitalism 1.0: profit first. Capitalism 2.0: Peace first, your social mission second, profit third. Not utopia. A stepping stone. An evolution of what we have. The shift has already begun. imnoexpert.com/peace/what-e...

Yup. If you aren’t punching up, you’re doing politics wrong. 🤜⬆️

Working people create the wealth. Billionaires hoard it. And somehow, we're supposed to be grateful for the scraps? This system isn't broken. It's working exactly as intended, and it's time we changed that.

What if an hour of your time was worth exactly the same as an hour of anyone else's? Time banks do exactly that — swap skills, no money involved. A doctor's hour equals a gardener's hour. It changes what 'valuable' means. timebanking.org

The Next System must be global. It must deal with poverty. It must create maximum impact with minimal change. It must use what we have today. Ten principles for building what comes next. imnoexpert.com/peace/the-ne...

Ten years ago, electric cars were a joke. Now Toyota — the company that bet against them — is scrambling to catch up. The status quo doesn't fall to arguments. It falls to better alternatives showing up at scale.

We can't change what happened. We can't change what's happening. But the future is unwritten, and it belongs to everyone living right now. Every system was built by people, which means it can be rebuilt by people. imnoexpert.com/about-im-no-...

Over 6,000 B-Corps worldwide now legally require directors to consider impact, not just profit. Not a niche. Not a label. A structural change to what a company is for. And it's growing. bcorporation.net

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Every tool we have to build a better world existed ten years ago. The knowledge, the wealth, the connectivity, the technology. What's new isn't the tools. It's the willingness to use them differently.

Far too many Americans seem to be under an illusion that their Country will magically fix itself, even if they themselves do nothing. Climate change has the same feeling, but globally. Things don’t fix themselves. You need to step up, show up and help.

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The current system is not the final system. It is the latest draft. The next draft is being written right now — by every person who asks 'what if we tried it differently?' The page isn't blank. But the pen is in our hand.

Yes, we may be the 'greediest' generation — measured by the wealth we've inherited and the systems we've accepted. But we're also the most informed, most connected, and most equipped to do something about it. The same resources that created the problem can fund the solution.

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Somewhere right now, a team is prototyping the thing that will make the current system look like version 0.1. They're probably underfunded, underestimated, and working in a community that directly experiences the problem. That's where the best systems come from.

The best changes don't ask you to rebuild your life. They ask you to notice one thing, adjust one default, try one experiment. Maximum impact, minimal disruption. That's how durable change actually travels.

What if the people who do the work also owned the work? Employee-owned companies outperform on satisfaction, retention, and resilience. Mondragon employs 80,000+ worker-owners. The 'inevitable' corporate structure isn't inevitable at all.

Of all the hypocrisy in America, the greatest in my mind is the refusal to raise the minimum wage and the refusal to introduce a maximum wage.

Municipal elections - an incredible reminder of how powerful democracy is. Vote!

You can't move to tomorrow until you accept today. That doesn't mean agreeing with it. It means seeing it clearly enough to build from where we are. Every useful redesign begins with an honest look at the current version.

The internet is the largest cooperation project in human history. Millions building shared protocols, open standards, free software — producing infrastructure that trillions in closed competition couldn't match. If that's not proof we can build better systems together, what is?

A manifesto isn't a promise that everything will be fine. It's a list of principles for building something better, written before you know exactly what it will look like. The manifesto is a beginning, not an ending.

Every system has a default setting. The default is the most powerful design choice nobody notices. Opt-in or opt-out for organ donation. Auto-enrol for retirement savings. The status quo is just a default that hasn't been questioned yet.

MIT Solve funds open-source solutions to global challenges. Teams aren't waiting for permission — they're building working solutions in the communities that need them most. The tools for improvement already exist. The people building them already exist.

We can't change what happened. We can't change what's happening now. But the future is still unwritten, and it belongs to everyone currently living. That's not a slogan. It's a structural fact. Every system was built by people, which means it can be rebuilt by people.

The evolution has already begun. Social enterprise, B-Corps, co-ops, open source, community energy. The next system isn't a proposal — it's a collection of working prototypes. The gap between 'fringe idea' and 'normal' is shorter than it looks.

We live in the wealthiest era in human history. We also live in the most unequal. These aren't separate facts — they're the same fact, seen from different seats. We have the wealth. We have the knowledge. What we're still building is the will.

The most durable changes rarely announce themselves as revolutions. They arrive as adjustments. A new default. A slightly different incentive. Systems don't need to be overthrown. They need to be updated.

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Instead of asking a distant corporation to invest in your town, what if the town invested in itself? Community wealth building keeps money circulating locally. The money is already there. The question is whether it passes through or stays long enough to work.

Ten simple changes can reshape a world. Not revolution. Small, concrete shifts that affect a handful of corporations while improving life for everyone. The list isn't the point. The habit of listing is. What would your ten be?

The status quo has a hidden advantage: it's already here. That's not the same as being the best option. Every system we accept as permanent was once someone's temporary solution. What feels permanent is usually just well-practised.

The Next System isn't a utopia. It's a stepping stone. It uses what we already have and redirects it. The question was never 'do we have enough?' It was always 'what are we rewarding?'

The most important software in the world isn't owned by a corporation. It's built in the open, tested by thousands, and given away. Linux, Wikipedia, the web itself. Open source didn't just survive capitalism. It improved it.

Televising the execution of Nidal Hasan is about more than voyeuristic violence Authoritarianism requires rituals of death that seek to transform secular oppression into religious orthodoxy while communicating the need to murderously purge “the other.” jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/descent-in...

'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Mandela's line isn't inspiration — it's observation. Television, satellites, the internet: all impossible until someone built them. The next impossible thing is probably already being prototyped.

Peace is actually quite simple. And more and more people are seeing today the relative handful of people working hard to prevent it.