look at what I found Project Syndicate, "commentaries from the world's top economists and geopolitical strategists." It's interesting and all but I'm beginning to be very skeptical of collections of elite technocrats¹. The more interested I get in my surroundings in India the more I realize everything here is a fractal of injustice all the way down. And I'm not even sure the urban westernized layer on top of a huge populace are even representative enough of everyone else to have a moral right to start reinventing everything. Put the chaos of our human systems together with the unrepresentative nature of jetsetting think-tank phds and this top-down systems-driven approach to things becomes useless.→[More:]

I came across an interesting term about the different bottom up approach to things: subsidiarity. I'm not saying it's a panacea cause when an environment is broken and unjust you can't just relegate power to the localized authorities if you want to make a transitional change across a people but the commitment and buy-in / pragmatic pilot projects have to start from the local level at least

¹ I would say 'technocratic douchebags' but remembered that I've decided that this word 'douchebag' is one of contemporary culture's deep failures alongside Reality TV and autotune