This content was created by GHION.AI . This content was uploaded by GHION.AI . This is a YouTube video titled "Michael Tubbs: Focusing Innovation on Societal Problems" created on January 16, 2016. It features a monologue by Michael Tubbs expressing concerns about societal progress, focusing on education, community relations, and the impact of profit-driven policies on social justice.
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If I'm honest, my biggest fear is that I'm going to commit myself and my Stanford education to fixing these very difficult problems in community in Stockton, but that our society won't progress with it. I'm worried that I will continue to spend all my time and resources and energy really thinking through. How do we make sure every kid can read at grade level in third grade? How do you make sure every kid is in a high quality preschool? How do we help parents learn the importance of reading to their children? How do we make sure that police community relationships are okay? How do you make sure everyone has access to fresh fruits and groceries not to do all that great work in Stockton while society continues to get worse and worse? I'm extremely worried about my kid asking me one day, like, why dad? In a time with all these technological advancements and all this good stuff, people figuring out how to live on Mars and on the moon and you guys had a black president, but people still had to go to the streets and tell people that black lives matter. I'm worried, I'm really frankly afraid about what happens when we let profit determine policy. And I think we've seen some of that with the private prison industry, where literally private prison corporations have helped write the country's criminal justice policies for the past 20 years. I'm worried at that we'll spend all our time and all our energy and all our smart on making cool products, but really forgetting about people.
