messyredemptions

Hi Dr. Lee, what would you do to change the DSM and ensure better trauma/developmentally informed practices be adopted across medical, social work, educational, and first responder fields if you could get the ideal outcome?

What are the primary companies owning the student debt, who else/what other companies own or presides on the boards of those companies?

Do you see coordinated patterns across industries and sectors for the debt or have a sense of the overall strategies and likely timelines coming from the various corporate owners/leaders?

e.g. Black Rock having significant shareholder status in mist major banks and its role in taking up and propping up prices on the housing market (Zillow), medical debt, etc.

What are the most feasible and effective paths for every day people to reign in these debt institutions?

What organizations and personal methods have been effective for individuals who are stuck to challenge or dispute their own debt?

What do you feel makes it so challenging for media to call out the more vicious debt schemes with more pointed rhetoric?

What are examples of interesting alternative financing that you've seen, if any, that point to more generative uses and positive economic impacts from the money collected rather than extractive for the sake of maximizing shareholder value?

What could happen if we indexed the value of currencies locally (in the US it's legal for regional/local currencies to exist) to things like water and environmental quality, climate progress, infrastructure, and educational attainment etc. (Basically adapted a Sustainability indicator/Global Happinesses index but for local/bioregional priorities as the scorecard for currency) in addition to something like the US Federal standard?

I recall seeing some notes about how communities with local currencies in the Great Depression fared better for economic reslience but don't hear much about modernizing things so that the currency is semi-generative on a systemic level beyond something like Bitcoin where data mining is rewarded but without consideration for the environment.

So indexing the quality and value of the public commons ideally creates an incentive for taking better care of the commons, and we know there are folks like Robert Costanza and his team who are already crunching numbers on the value of ecosystem services.

So having like wildlife numbers of keystone species for biomonitoring and water/soil/air quality reported and accounted for regularly as part of a region's economic health could be helpful and updated sort of like how companies report their quarterly/annual earnings (albeit ecosystem timelines often operate by the decades etc.).

What can be done in terms of advocacy by viewers to change the policies that enabled these techniques to support survivors and stop relying on gaslighting tactics or forcing false confessions instead of what people have to deal with so far?

Outside of the system, are there alternatives that you noted or recommend for survivors to look into?