NEXT NORMAL: Re-imagining Capitalism for Our Future - Systemic Inequality in Capitalism with Rodney Foxworth

Systemic Inequality in Capitalism with Rodney Foxworth

09/01/20 • 35 min

NEXT NORMAL: Re-imagining Capitalism for Our Future

For the third edition of Next Normal, Amit guides a powerful and thought-provoking conversation with Rodney Foxworth, a community empowerment advocate and the CEO of Common Future. In this episode full of global implications, Rodney describes the ways that “we’ve designed inequality into the [capitalist] system.” Rodney and Amit dissect the complex intersections of race, economics, justice, and the American Dream in a context that is relevant to countries around the world.

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