I've been thinking about this talk for a long time and struggling with what to say in this moment and given the last year. I had originally been thinking I would focus this talk on democracy, and I spent some time reading the work of various political scientists and philosophers on the linkages between political and economic democracy, something I've long been interested in. But as I shifted my reading into some new areas and thought more about all the events of the past year, I headed in a different direction.
