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A Crisis of Imagination 

2/2/2016

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Core Group member, Andy McCarroll had this to share in response to an article in the New York Times by Peter Buffet titled 'The Charitable-Industrial Complex':

'What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it. Foundation dollars should be the best “risk capital” out there.'

There are people working hard at showing examples of other ways to live in a functioning society that truly creates greater prosperity for all (and I don’t mean more people getting to have more stuff). 

Money should be spent trying out concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one vast market. Is progress really Wi-Fi on every street corner? No. It’s when no 13-year-old girl on the planet gets sold for sex. But as long as most folks are patting themselves on the back for charitable acts, we have a perpetual poverty machine.

'It’s an old story; we really need a new one.'
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