equity above all. but what justice? not for me to dictate. still, i feel i should try: start with an honest determination of existing poverty, the worst injustice of all. invest all resources used for punishing those motivated by poverty toward a universal inheritance. start from the top of the hierarchy of needs and work your way down (water, food, etc.). recognize that our culture of individualism and inequity will have done irreparable damage to many people, and expect that reparations must be made—in a broad sense requiring a negative of the existing picture of inequality. this is global work. recognize that the lines between sovereignties are drawn by the history that invented our current troubles. recognize that the most important laws in the world must be global. who enforces justice, and how? a new framework is needed. my country has recognized this several times over the course of its history. however, its representatives have always been incapable of acting like anything other than business executives trying to secure leverage over competitors, and in so doing have failed to create anything more than a series of distinguished facades behind which the powerful enrich themselves further using a complex network of bribes. a distinction must be made between the “free market” in which goods and services are exchanged and the “global network” in which people are connected to the resources that they need to live. the global network is the only possible protocol for distributing justice. and remember, the worst injustice of all is poverty. when does this work begin? now. especially now because my country, which was once such a forceful champion of the free market, is suffering intense, possibly fatal side-effects from it. how do we do the work? it can’t be left to the great national competitors of my country because they’re liable to recreate the same conditions for their own narrow benefits. instead, a coalition of political parties that align across national borders, whose members’ only requirement be their agreement that free market has failed us, and a global network is the only way to ensure the basic needs of the suffering poor around the world may be met. remembering again, the worst injustice of all is poverty.
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