How the Super-Rich Have Rigged the World – & How It’s Being Unrigged
Course full - to go on waiting list please e-mail us at learningexperiences@bell.net
Our world today is a construct to make the world’s richest richer – every day, minute, every second. They ensure we want to consume; they provide standardized goods & services and energy from centralized grids;
they lend money to enable us to buy these; & they capture our data every time we do anything.
Everything - goods, services, energy, money and data – flows through their systems and they take a slice of on everything that moves. That’s how you accumulate a fortune, not of millions or tens of millions, but billions. 62 people now own as much of the world’s wealth as the bottom 50% - 3.6 billion people!!
But it’s all changing. New ideas and systems, far simpler, are increasingly cutting out the middlemen who dominate global markets. Think Uber, think Bitcoin, think decentralized energy generation. It’s not just the sharing economy but a daring and caring economy that is flattening economic hierarchies and breaking down economic complexity.
Learn more about how our world is becoming simpler and fairer, how the superrich are trying to resist, but why this resistance will ultimately be futile.
Moderator: Pat Simke
Dates and Time: Tuesdays, April 19 and 26, 2-4 PM
Location: OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room TBD
Maximum Size of Class: 25
Enrolment: COURSE FULL - TO GO ON WAITING LIST PLEASE E-MAIL US AT LEARNINGEXPERIENCES@BELL.NET
they lend money to enable us to buy these; & they capture our data every time we do anything.
Everything - goods, services, energy, money and data – flows through their systems and they take a slice of on everything that moves. That’s how you accumulate a fortune, not of millions or tens of millions, but billions. 62 people now own as much of the world’s wealth as the bottom 50% - 3.6 billion people!!
But it’s all changing. New ideas and systems, far simpler, are increasingly cutting out the middlemen who dominate global markets. Think Uber, think Bitcoin, think decentralized energy generation. It’s not just the sharing economy but a daring and caring economy that is flattening economic hierarchies and breaking down economic complexity.
Learn more about how our world is becoming simpler and fairer, how the superrich are trying to resist, but why this resistance will ultimately be futile.
Moderator: Pat Simke
Dates and Time: Tuesdays, April 19 and 26, 2-4 PM
Location: OISE, 252 Bloor Street West, Room TBD
Maximum Size of Class: 25
Enrolment: COURSE FULL - TO GO ON WAITING LIST PLEASE E-MAIL US AT LEARNINGEXPERIENCES@BELL.NET