• How can capitalism be merged into the doughnut economic model?

• Start-up - private validation and growth cycle

• Corporate entity

• Corporate entity

• Non-profit entity
  

• Consider opportunities for your ideas to start a business.

• Maybe there is a product you would love to improve or a service you can provide that is in demand.

• Doughnut Model (previous episodes)

• S2 E25 | New Economics a la Doughnut

Hippocratic Oath (National Institutes of Health)

Biomimicry (Biomimicry Institute)

SBA Loan Guarantee Program Info (pdf from U.S. Government site)

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• The first amendment holds many liberties that are of the utmost importance to self-rule. One, in particular, was captured in the first 16 words of the amendment:

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"

• It was designed this way because many founders had no interest in the tyranny of theocratic regimes. They were farmers, lawyers, businessmen, and plantation owners. Many founders did not even subscribe to a religious tradition or church. Nor did they want to be forced to live under the rules of one.

• Police raids on churches and parish leaders.

• One of the best ways to break down divides is to ask questions and find common ground with those in our communities that are different from us.

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• On monuments: Why they are important and under what conditions they serve us the best.

• This is truly a grassroots activity and one where citizens can force a lot of change. Throughout our local communities, there are monuments to the humans that came before us. Inspiring as they may be, their shortcomings are controversial and distracting nonetheless.

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• Just as the allied nations of World Wars past continue to battle in the struggle against tyranny, we as individuals need to be allies of the common good.

• For the LGBTQ+, it looks like a straight military veteran who jumps into action to take down an armed mass shooter in one of their nightclubs.

• We need to stand up for our human dignity during our battle for liberty and justice by standing up for each other everywhere, in every way that we can.

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• It has been a while since we discussed the idea of freedom in the United States and this time around we’re marrying it up with the pursuit of happiness. We’re also going to lean into some Stoic teachings to help guide our discussion.

• We all have a limited time here on Earth, try not to spend too much of it angry, fearful, or wanting. Look for any reason to be grateful. Focus your energy on what is in your control, not outside of it.

• Philosophy, we have a special reverence for Stoicism, teaches us how to think well and develop an ever-growing awareness of things.

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• How the power of faction can bring the demise of a republic. Ideology is never a good substitute for reasoned choice and is even worse when wielded by authoritarian bullies.

• Consider the former Weimar Republic of Germany and how it enabled a party to come to power that converted it into a dictatorship. The heads of the conservative parties in power trusted that Adolf Hitler would not run amok and that he could be controlled. They were wrong.

• Use your reasoned choice to set aside any dogma or ideologies for a moment and consider the facts of the matter and the people you choose to be your representatives. Avoid the narrowed-minded trap of single issues and consider the whole of your values and your existence as a human being.

• Consider this: A wealthy person does not need to work for money. Their money works for them. Their time is their own to choose freely what to do.

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• Paraphrasing Gandhi and Jefferson, if we measured society based on how we are treating our most vulnerable, it would get a failing grade.

• The UN recognizes this as a human rights violation and tracks this global problem.

• For instance, because slaves were property, "After Congress prohibited the importation of slaves in 1808, slave masters—who could no longer rely on the international slave trade to replenish their labor force—gained an acute 'economic incentive to govern Black women’s reproductive lives.' Female slaves were 'valuable to their masters not only for their labor but also for their ability to produce more slaves.”

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• Learn more about United States History, especially the uglier parts. The parts that act as warnings through history if only we learn them. Anything "again" is a bad slogan.

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• The second amendment: One highly charged sentence of 27 words.
  

"A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed."

• The original point of the amendment was about supporting a well-regulated militia, and for the people to bear arms for militia's sake.

• According to CBS News, gun makers tallied $1 billion in revenue over the last 10 years from AR-15s alone.

• Lobby our representatives to do what is right and proven to help solve the problem of gun violence in our country, as inspired by successes abroad:

• Banning semi-automatic and automatic weapons along with high capacity capabilities.

Your hosts: Michael V. Piscitelli and Raymond Wong Jr.

• All those statistics MVP rattled off are too much for the notes. We captured them here for you: CPP S3 E58 Bear Arms for Militias Sake cited_stats.

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• The coup was very real and our republic, and the liberty it promises, remain at risk.

"… Your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained; that its administration in every department may be stamped with wisdom and virtue;"

• And he warned us of tyranny and how political parties will set the stage for it:

"... Unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." We might argue that the engines at risk are our elections.

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• Lobby your representatives to support congressional action to reinstate their own authority granted under the Constitution and ensure proper oversight of the executive and judicial branches.
  

• Do not take big corporate donations.

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• The Supreme Court of the United States of America is no longer bound by precedence when it so decides.
  

• Two seats on the court were essentially stolen by historical precedence in the Senate.

• A party gerrymandered the seats into their pocket effectively stealing them from the opposition. They violated the rules of the game to win at the risk of the league's legitimacy or the stability of our republic in this case.

• The most extreme and insane religious groups in the United States have an enormously outsized hand on the wheel of our republic these days. Moreso than in the past because our system was born of the enlightenment, based on reason and rule of law.

• It is both figuratively and literally in a sense shadowy, as covered in the linked article.

• More religiosity coming our way with the latest affront to precedence that has no basis in reason. The reversal of Rowe v. Wade was insane and based on one of the most selective readings of the Constitution possible.

• Implement term limits of something like 18 years, as has been suggested to enable presidents the opportunity to appoint on average at least one in each of their terms.

• Yes, we would need to pass a Constitutional Amendment.

• However, congress already has the power to impeach and convict even Supreme Court Justices, although that has yet to happen.

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• Note: MVP misspoke mid-episode about which amendment religion belongs to, that is the first one and not the second.

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