https://spectra.video/videos/watch/7bb36cc9-fa26-4eef-a03c-05a2f4e29289 There are three things that are not going to save us from climate change: the energy transition, reform, and corporations. This one is about reform. Reform is not a tool for solving problems. It is a tool for absorbing complaint. The COVID child tax credit lifted about two percent of the population out of poverty and then it was not renewed, because it worked. Social Security gets chipped away a little at a time. The bank bailouts found something like four hundred billion dollars for the banks and a small fraction of that for the people they were meant to help. The IPCC has quietly rewritten its own standards downward, and it calculates with technologies that do not exist yet. And the farm bill always ends up at the top, where the money already is. The research on this is not ambiguous. When a majority of the country wants something and the wealthy do not, it has a very low chance of happening. When the wealthy want something the majority does not, it happens anyway. You cannot reform a mechanism that was designed to reform a system. It ends up like a cat with no claws. So the answer is not a better reform. It is building the life you want and using your right of refusal on the systems that already exist. The long version, with the papers and the numbers, is on the site under articles: https://loopfarmstead.com If this was useful, subscribe. New videos go up as they come out. We wrote a book about all of this. Meditations on Agriculture is five thousand years of what farmers learned about making land feed a family, told straight. Nine dollar ebook: https://loopfarmstead.com/meditations/ 0:00 Three things that will not save us, and reform is the second one 1:01 The child tax credit worked, so it was discontinued 1:46 Social Security, and who the bailouts were really for 3:18 The IPCC rewrote its own standards to protect wealth 4:39 The farm bill always ends up at the top 5:27 You cannot reform a mechanism designed to reform a system 6:49 Who the system is actually built to serve 8:22 Nothing changes, because the system churns on 8:39 Build the life you want, and use your right of refusal 8:54 The farm I could build on that hill 9:06 Meditations on Agriculture Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:15:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://spectra.video https://spectra.video/lazy-static/avatars/71f5d173-eea9-47a7-b254-f7e91f9f5d25.png https://spectra.video/videos/watch/7bb36cc9-fa26-4eef-a03c-05a2f4e29289 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://spectra.video/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.