Decoupling The Good Life From Capitalism

Soon explores their experience of China, where unlike what we are told, “beneath the veneer of the new modernism and policy intervention, capitalism’s familiar cracks have emerged.” They see that “‘The Good Life’ created under the conditions of capitalism today, imposes, for many around the world, a fallacy of being able to truly meet our needs. Even if it does, it ends up being at the expense of others.” With a warning that unless we can address those being left behind by this fallacy, they will be “scooped up by harmful extremism — all under the illusion of care”, and that to offer “a meaningful alternative economic system, it is essential that we engage with what we dream of as ‘good lives‘ – the diverging stories, in their own framing and in their own language, of what this looks like to different people all around the world.”