Discussing inhumanity with Kevin Howard, author of Onward At Last!

What do you mean by inhumanity? All inhumanity is born. We don't treat the people we love in an inhumane way. But there's a lot of inhumanity in the world. So how is that possible? It's because it starts with the idea that we are essentially separate from each other. And that actually creates the space. I'll give you one example. In COVID, once we all had to shelter in place in April and May of 2020, what we learned is that the essential workers of our society, in the competition for goods and services to take care of ourselves and our families, we're defeating them. We're We're feeding the people who— making it harder for the people that we absolutely have to have to make sure the electricity comes to the house. We're making it harder for them to do the very things we absolutely need because the context in which we access resources is through competition. This is my point there about the inhumanity, is that this is only possible because competition encourages us to detach from each other. If you're competing against someone and the outcome is win or lose, you can't consider their benefit while you're competing. After the game