Beyond Survival: A Manifesto for the Opportunity Society

For thousands of years, humanity has organized itself around food, shelter, security, protection, disease, violence, and scarcity. The story of civilization is the story of overcoming these forces. Governments were created to provide order. Markets were created to distribute resources. Laws were created to contain violence. Institutions were created to provide stability.

And yet billions of people still spend most of their lives worrying about survival.