b'nature, on the essential goodness of human beings, and on our innate impulse towards social organization and cooperation. 3We choose to bring money back down to earthnot because it is hard, but because it is easy. In some ways, it is surprisingly simple. The crazy, beautiful truth of the matter is that while moonshots are complicated, speculative and socially disruptive, earthshots are simple, tangible and convivial. Moonshots require enormous quantities of venture capital and complicated global supply chains; earthshots require modest infusions of nurture capital and link local producers and consumers directly. Moonshots chase gigantic financial returns for a small number of investors; earthshots put social and environmental returns first. The World According to Moonshots assumes there is no such thing as a company that is too big or money that is too fast; earthshots encourage an appreciation of the virtues of the small, the slow and the local. This is not an argument against moonshots, globalization, Silicon Valley, Wall Street or Washington. Rather, it is an argument against acting as if they are all there is. It is an argument against putting all our 3 See Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman (Little, Brown and Company, 2019). Bregman presents a far-reaching sociological review of human nature, arguing that the story of Homo economicus as individualistic, competitive and profit-driven is dangerously incomplete, failing to take into account our fundamental intrinsic motivation to cooperate, care and play. 9'