If there’s one thing that the wealthy and poor seem to have unshakeably in common, it’s the firm belief that privilege is binary: my life can’t be ON if yours isn’t OFF.

This is shameful on both sides.

Shameful because it shows how unaspirational, unambitious, and intellectually poverty-stricken we have allowed ourselves to become.

The above presentation, downloadable here, consists of 24 slides — so a bit longer than a lot of rich people prefer to demand of us.

The meat of the presentation — or maybe I should say the vegetable! — comes under about the 18 slide-mark … so maybe not TL;DR after all.

Either way, the purpose of the document — right now — is to ensure you remember how ashamed you should feel. Guilt, that is … for living your dream at the expense of the dead and dying in many countries.

But I also want us all to work together to find a way out of this terrible set of circumstances: a century which promised everything and is delivering nothing.

I want us to remind ourselves how rich our intellects can be … when we remember how we once sincerely and humanly were capable of this; how rightfully ambitious our better business mindsets are able, even now, to deliver on good liberal behaviours, day after day; and how our finest aspirations may yet save the planet from having to turn its back on us humans forever.

24 slides

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