Property Is Killing Us
Channel: leftymathprof
Date: 2023-05-20

(27 min) We're on the verge of extinction, most likely from nuclear war or global warming. Both those problems (and many other problems, such as poverty and conventional war) can be traced to the 12,000-year-old institution of private property. That institution was preceded by 300,000 years of sharing. To survive, we must quickly return to sharing. Table of contents:

00:09 Introduction
01:44 Extinction
06:07 Hunter-Gatherers
08:28 The Neolithic Revolution
10:12 Ownership and Separateness
13:58 Separateness, Selfishness, Fear
17:52 Market Myths and Power Truths
25:35 What is to be Done?

A transcript, with some related links, can be found at https://leftymathprof.wordpress.com/prop-kill/