marina gorbis @mgorbis .bsky.social

This broke my heart. “Why would one of the richest men in the world commit such an act of injustice?” Halimi asked. “Sometimes I think that if Elon Musk himself were fully informed about this matter, he would likely be deeply ashamed.” Feeling shame @elonmusk @NateCavanaugh?!

@tran_scends stay safe! This is just heart breaking.

Surreal and terrifying. We evacuated as a precaution last night & now the Hollywood Hills are burning. Thankfully the winds have subsided enough for aerial drops, but heartbreaking to see our city torn asunder & families lose everything. LA isn't going to be the same.

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Why I Always Vote: my response to the irresponsible and astounding oped by Matthew Walther in the @nytimes linkedin.com/posts/marinago…

"Mathematica Research compared people who had received job training under the 1998 law, now known as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, with a randomly selected control group. Thirty months later, the training had zero effect on earnings." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

Looking forward to this!

A devastating loss of an incredible human being who’s inspired so many of us at @iftf and throughout the world. Keeping that blue marble close @wallacejnichols 💔

New from @BrennanCenter @TheElectionsGrp and @iftf: How election officials can prepare for AI threats to 2024 elections. Read and share major set of solutions, plans, and checklists for the public servants who run them ⬇️ brennancenter.org/our-work/resea…

“Foresight tools can help social sector orgs become future-ready: turning them into sensing and sense-making entities.” Marina Gorbis (@mgorbis) of @iftf outlines how #foundations and #nonprofits can use futures thinking to ensure a more equitable world: ssir.org/articles/entry…

@nataliefoster recommend @vanishingcorp article on shareholder capitalism as a suicide pact medium.com/imagining-equi…. When most of the population is invested in the stock market, social change is difficult. People who pushed for pension privatization knew that.

For more, here is the article it’s based on: nytimes.com/2024/05/08/mag… #EconTwitter #economics #thedaily #NyTimes

Today’s @nytimes The Daily goes deep on how privatizing Americans’ retirement savings via the 401K system has left the majority of seniors unable to save or without the ability to stop working at all. Our 401K system has roots in Reaganomics and bootstrap thinking, and has, unsurprisingly left most working Americans behind. It’s time to envision a Guarantee Economy for ALL Americans–from infancy to retirement. nytimes.com/2024/05/20/pod…

It’s Time to Tax the Billionaires nytimes.com/interactive/20… Today, the superrich control a greater share of America’s wealth than during the Gilded Age of Carnegies and Rockefellers.That's partly because taxes on the wealthy have cratered.

Time--number of hours per day--is one invariable in our lives and we are remarkably consistent in how we spend it (unless we eliminate sleep, in which case all bets are off!) linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…

@AnandWrites @JosephEStiglitz Karl Polanyi: Market economies create market societies.

Congratulations to a visionary, a movement maker, and one of my favorite collaborators @nataliefoster on publishing her much needed book! You can listen to my conversation with Natalie here soundcloud.com/institute-for-…

"Capitalists don't want market economies, where they have to compete with one another, eroding their margins and profits – they want a planned economy, like Amazon, where Party Secretary Bezos and his commissars tell merchants what they can sell and tell us what we must pay" !!!

@roybahat I am in the same place--extreme sense of disorientation. I think this is the only humane place to be right now, rather than in a place of certainty and self-righteousness. 💔💔💔

For weeks (months?), I keep trying to write to figure out my thoughts and feelings about the Middle East, and struggling to say anything meaningful. Still in that place. Continuing to work at it, just to figure my own views. I've been horrified, alternating with being numb, for long enough I can't remember what it was like before. Dumbfounded by October 7. Dumbfounded by what is happening in Gaza, with the support of our tax dollars. Dumbfounded by Hamas. Dumbfounded by Bibi. Dumbfounded by antisemitism. Dumbfounded by the erosion of standards of humanity. Dumbfounded by tribalism of every kind. Dumbfounded by TikTok-level of "expertise," and a shortage of genuine experts people trust. Dumbfounded by mobs that have no way to stand down. Dumbfounded by my own inability to find my place to stand. And then today I am again dumbfounded, and I expect it will all get worse. Grateful for those taking action, these are impossible choices without obvious answers. Anyone who thinks it is simple must be much smarter or more morally clear than I am. Jealous of those people.

Where does the phrase “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” come from? Listen to the full conversation between author @lisquart and IFTF Executive Director @MGorbis, about Quart’s new book “Bootstrapped,” on the Future Now podcast. apple.co/3Q2sER3

Nearly all work will be transformed by AI-enabled tools. IFTF's foresight research takes a close look at AI's effects in the context of Transportation, Construction, Real Estate, Insurance, Media, & Consumer Goods in Japan. Explore each deep forecast here: bit.ly/3Jbh3Lz

"AI could create situations where workers might retain their jobs, but critical aspects of their roles that they find enjoyable or meaningful could be replaced by technology, leaving them with tasks that feel tedious or alienating." iftf.org/projects/three… A must read!

"A company must be, first, a platform for human contribution if it is to be anything else at all." It shouldn't be a "corporate blender." nytimes.com/2024/03/21/opi…