Kerry Landon-Lane
1 min readOct 9, 2021

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Passionate article Corinne Nita.

I think you are talking more about the disparity of wealth -- and also happiness. These are all enormous concerns. I wrote an op-ed for Hearst newspapers and an edition is on MEDIUM "Happiness and Wealth -- it Takes Two to Tango".

Capitalism is simply the flow of money, goods and services and labor. It's not a villian anymore than socialism is a villain. Actually one needs the other to be successful.

May be another aspect of your article is about decision making, and that others are making those for us. Personally I prefer for most part for decisions to be market based and that only interfered with when we agreed common welfare (like us wearing masks in a pandemic or big national investments in R&D to combat climate change).

The inequality of opportunities of a completely free market can be countered by a basic income along the lines that Andrew Yang was promoting. But that can't exist without capitalism to fund it -- same thing with addressing climate change.

Many thanks

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Kerry Landon-Lane
Kerry Landon-Lane

Written by Kerry Landon-Lane

OP-ED writer, designer and artist. Most recently returned to architecture and deliberately presents the subject void of buildings.

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