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Brent Toderian

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Read this thread. It hits on primary reasons that I support Mark Carney for Canadian Prime Minister, especially at this unprecedented time.

1st, he’s literally the smartest person in almost every room on national economies, especially in the face of crises.

2nd, he understands both value & values.

C. L. Polk @clpolk.com · Mar 16

So I’m getting started reading Values by Mark Carney and I want to share some shots of how this book starts because it makes me blink in surprise.

If you haven’t read it, I think you might want to, because this is what Canada’s new prime minister was thinking about five years ago.

Page excerpt of Mark Carney’s book, Values.

These are the questions that this book seeks to explore. It will examine how our society came to embody Wilde's aphorism - knowing the price of everything but the value of nothing. How by elevating belief in the market to an inviolable truth we moved from a market economy to a market society. And how we can turn this around.

In many respects, this book is a belated response to a question posed a few summers ago when a range of policymakers, business people, academics, labour leaders and charity workers gathered at the Vatican to discuss the future of the market system.
Pope Francis surprised us by joining the lunch and sharing a parable. He observed that:
Our meal will be accompanied by wine. Now, wine is many things. It has a bouquet, colour and richness of taste that all complement the food. It has alcohol that can enliven the mind. Wine enriches all our senses.

At the end of our feast, we will have grappa. Grappa is one thing: alcohol. Grappa is wine distilled.

He continued:
Humanity is many things - passionate, curious, rational, altruistic, creative, self-interested.

Excerpt, continued:

But the market is one thing: self-interested. The market is humanity distilled.

And then he challenged us:
Your job is to turn the grappa back into wine, to turn the market back into humanity. This isn't theology. This is reality. This is the truth.

This book draws on my experience in the private sector and public policy to examine the relationship between value and values. How they shape each other, and how, by doing so, they can determine our livelihoods, identities and possibilities. And how, once we recognise these dynamics, we can turn
grappa back into wine.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I examines various concepts of value and their roots in political philosophy and, more recently and narrowly, in economic theory and financial practice. It uses a series of valuation paradoxes from art to the environment to illustrate the potential disconnects between valuations in markets and the values of society.
Values and value are related but distinct. In the most general terms, values represent the principles or standards of behaviour; they are judgements of what is important in life. Examples include integrity,

A second excerpt from Values by Mark Carney:

Chapter 6 shows that our deepest challenges are rooted in the narrowing of our values to market fundamentalism, and it explains how this is contributing to the growing exclusivity of capitalism and the rise of populism. In particular, it argues that, just as all ideologies are prone to extremes, capitalism loses its sense of moderation when the belief in the power of the market enters the realm of faith. In the decades prior to the financial crisis, such radicalism came to dominate economic ideas and
became a pattern of social behaviour.
In short, we have moved from a market economy to a market society, and this is now undermining our basic social contract of relative equality of outcomes,
equality of opportunity and fairness
across generations.

Part II explores the three most significant crises of the twenty-first century - of credit, Covid and climate.

March 17, 2025 at 10:36 PM

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Stonekettle

@stonekettle.bsky.social

You know, I've never once had a LGBTQ person force their "lifestyle" on me.

But these miserable greedy billionaires, man, they are in my face every goddamn day.

March 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM

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Laurie

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#Canadian Cpl Paul James Davis, 28 yrs old, of Bridgewater Nova Scotia, died serving in Afghanistan 3/3
#WeHadYourBack #NATO #cdnpoli #uspoli #novascotia #CanadaSky

March 9, 2025 at 12:58 PM

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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦

@peipolitical.bsky.social

A pissed off Trudeau is a dangerous Trudeau. Just ask any of the MAGA Conservatives in Canada who got beaten down every time. His speech today - I couldn't be prouder.
#IStandWithTrudeau until the very last day. #cdnpoli

March 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM

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Erin 🇨🇦

@spicyerin.bsky.social

Ok Team Canada. You know what to do.

A cartoon depiction of a coach facing his male hockey team. The caption reads ‘play like girls’

February 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM

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Cogburn, Rooster Cogburn

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February 20, 2025 at 11:51 PM

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MapQuest

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Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do…

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Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘