Altered States Of Conversation E140| Money, Power, Inequality and AI w/ Forrest Landry
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Dec 6, 2025 Forrest Landry, a philosopher and master craftsman known for his systems-level thinking, dives deeply into the foundations of money, power, and inequality. He discusses how technology amplifies inequality and explores the concept of money as a tool for choice-making. Landry critiques the existing economic systems, suggesting a move from capitalism and socialism toward a more distributed, embodied approach. He emphasizes the importance of cultivating collective wisdom and restoring trust in human decision-making amidst the AI revolution.
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Problems Are Choice Failures, Not Just Technical Ones
- Large-scale problems like pollution, inequality and war are symptoms of failing to make good choices, not of missing causal tools.
- Solving them requires new metaphysical and social tools for collective choice, not more causal engineering.
Flip Extraction Into Regenerative Cycles
- Modern economies follow extract → abstract → accumulate; sustainability requires the inverse: recontextualize → embody → distribute.
- That inversion centers care and local ecological fit over pure accumulation.
Design Systems Around Distributed Care
- Distribute decision-making, embody choices and recontextualize value flows to convert finite games into sustainable systems.
- Cultivate in-person attunement and collective wisdom to make care a real skill in governance.
