b'money to work in distant pools, under the management of people we dont know or barely know, and who often pass our money on to others who we dont know at all. Is it any wonder common sense is declining and social capital is eroding?Those astute AHA! scouters among you will have noticed that I did have an AHA! moment while writing PART V of this notebook. It was embodied in these phrases:Healing pulses of capital and peaceable mobilizations of people.Reconnecting to one another, to the places where we live and tothe land. The ethos they reflect envisions, in the decades ahead, a rebalancing of moonshot and earthshot, competition and collaboration, venture capital and nurture capital, elitism and egalitarianism. The inequities and imbalances of our current economic and political systems are glaring: Like many of the viruss hardest hit victims, the United States went into the COVID-19 pandemic wracked by preexisting conditions. A fraying public health infrastructure, inadequate medical supplies, an employer-based health insurance system perversely unsuited to the momentthese and other afflictions are surely contributing to the death toll. But in addressing the causes and consequences of this pandemicand its cruelly uneven impactthe elephant in the room is extreme income inequality.10'