It's Very Hard To Establish An Economy

We're Now Moving Toward A Radically Different Economy. You Absolutely Can't Have A Distribution Oligopoly. The New Oligopolies - And I Think There Will Be New Oligopolies - Will Be Oligopolies Of Trustworthiness. Microsoft, Amazon, Schwab, And Other Brands Will Dominate Psychic Space, Not Shelf Space.

Cynicism Is The Last Refuge Of Those Who Don't Want To Do The Work Of Creating A Better Society.

Higher Education Isn't Just A Personal Investment. It's A Public Good That Pays Off In A More Competitive Workforce And Better-informed And Engaged Citizens. Every Year, We Spend Nearly $100 Billion On Corporate Welfare, And More Than $500 Billion On Defense Spending. Surely Ensuring The Next Generation Can Compete In The Global Economy Is At Least As Important As Subsidies For Big Business And Military Adventures Around The Globe. In Fact, I Think We Can And Must Go Further - Not Just Making Public Higher Education Tuition-free, But Reinventing Education In America As We Know It.

I'm 40 Years Old. What I Have Seen My Whole Life Is Widening Income Inequality.

We Are Creating A One Size Fits All System That Needlessly Brands Many Young People As Failures, When They Might Thrive If Offered A Different Education Whose Progress Was Measured Differently. Paradoxically We're Embracing Standardized Tests Just When The Economy Is Eliminating Standardized Jobs.