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Algorithms are making American inequality worse

Algorithms are making American inequality worse | Thinking about Systems | Scoop.it
In a new book, political scientist Virginia Eubanks says using computers to decide who gets social services hurts the poor.
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Prisons and policing: systemic challenges and alternative visions

Prisons and policing: systemic challenges and alternative visions | Thinking about Systems | Scoop.it
What can advocates for a more democratic economy learn from the movements for the abolition of prisons and policing?
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The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats

The Pitchforks Are Coming… For Us Plutocrats | Thinking about Systems | Scoop.it
A memo for my fellow filthy rich who live in our gated bubble worlds: Wake up, people. It won’t last.
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Adaptive Action Conflict Lab: Dialogue Across Difference

Adaptive Action Conflict Lab: Dialogue Across Difference | Thinking about Systems | Scoop.it
In HSD we use Pattern Logic and Adaptive Action to see, understand, and influence conditions that shape the conflict. Using Adaptive Action cycles helps you work with patterns and navigate the differences that divide individuals and groups. With HSD models and methods you can find sustainable patterns of interaction that resolve conflicts.
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Growing Up in a Bad Neighborhood Does More Harm Than We Thought

Growing Up in a Bad Neighborhood Does More Harm Than We Thought | Thinking about Systems | Scoop.it
A new study suggests that when a child moves out of a troubled area, the results in later life may be even more positive than economists once believed.
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How The Way We Think About the World Failed – Eudaimonia and Co

How The Way We Think About the World Failed – Eudaimonia and Co | Thinking about Systems | Scoop.it
The average person feels worse off than fifty years ago because more stuff doesn’t equal more contentment. In fact, more stuff equalled more discontentment, because with it came greater inequality, immobility, inopportunity. In those ways, possessing more material goods created a great feeling of fright and loss and danger. And that is perfectly reasonable. More contentment comes really from only one place: realizing more of one’s hidden possibility. But that is not happening anymore today.
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For many older Americans, the rat race is over. But the inequality isn’t.

For many older Americans, the rat race is over. But the inequality isn’t. | Thinking about Systems | Scoop.it
Income inequality among older Americans ranks among the most extreme in a survey of 35 well-developed countries.
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Is Facebook A Structural Threat To Free Society? - TruthHawk

Is Facebook A Structural Threat To Free Society? - TruthHawk | Thinking about Systems | Scoop.it
Is Facebook a structural threat to free society? I make the argument.
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Nonviolent Resistance

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In HSD, we teach people to see patterns in complex situations, and to understand them in true and useful ways. The goal is to make choices and take actions that shift those patterns toward greater health and wellbeing—away from oppression.
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Blending systems thinking approaches for organisational analysis: Reviewing child protection in England

This paper concerns the innovative use of a blend of systems thinking ideas in the ‘Munro Review of Child Protection’, a high-profile examination of child protection activities in England, 
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