You have to work at it every single minute of every single day. And you have to keep it in balance. To say that it can be predatory and monopolistic and rampant and that's the only way it'll work is to say bullshit. But to say on the other hand that you have to completely clank it down, you know, chain it down, put it in irons is also bullshit.
Because you're going to destroy the very thing that creates a place like Silicon Valley. That creates a place like Apple. That creates things like General Electric and General Motors and so forth. What you have to do is make sure they don't get out of hand. And you do that through the tension that comes from a genuine healthy labor movement and a genuine healthy and constantly working government regulatory system.
And that's difficult. That's hard work. I think that's one reason why America is failing right now. We don't really like that kind of complex, sophisticated, difficult, hard work anymore. What we like is to go to Wall Street and make millions.
R.K.: And the answer you keep coming with is, the solution is blood on the streets.
L.W.: Either that or the people waking up and taking back their government without any blood. That'd be nice, too.
R.K.: That would. And you know what, I think we need to wrap here. This has been a great interview. As I was certain of. Thank you so much.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, (more...)