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Inequality is the greater threat. Polarization is what inequality produces when citizens notice the gap.
Civil disobedience is justified when a government systematically ignores a serious wrong and closes off every lawful avenue to contest it.
Surveillance must be stopped before it is built, not governed after the state holds the data.
Yes, but the council splits on whether obligations within the current ownership structure can ever be enough.
The trading system already extracts wealth from poor countries. The council splits on whether taxation and aid reverse that flow or entrench it.
Trump's pressure on courts, prosecutors, and elections is a real threat, but whether institutions hold depends on whether their defenders still act like defenders.
Capitalism can survive AI, but only if redistribution happens before ownership concentration captures the governments that would impose it.
Policy disagreements become existential threats when economic inequality destroys shared civic reality and algorithms profit from the resulting conflict.
Tax capital gains like wages, fund universal basic services, and democratize ownership gradually through sovereign wealth funds.
Automation will concentrate wealth dangerously unless society redesigns who owns the machines.
Technology serves those who own it, but communities can govern it democratically if institutions give them real control over development and benefits.