The Social Contract Is Broken

The many protest movements over the last few decades, from Cacerolazos and Occupy Wall Street to the Arab Spring, Black Lives Matter and MAGA, have a common thread: they ware all started by people unhappy with their circumstances inside the systems they are trapped in. People who believed their social contracts are broken. They verbalize this in myriad ways: The system is rigged! tktk.

But the common belief is that life under the present regime is intolerable, and that the next generation's lives look to be worse than the present. Nobody wants that.

Call it the Politics of Grievance.

My conclusion from these movements is that We Are Involuntarily Renegotiating the Social Contract Around the World. What's worse, nobody has a great solution.

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