Marina Gorbis: Get Money Out of Politics to Make Room for Rational Decision-Making
September 15, 2015
This week, Marina Gorbis from the Institute for the Future presents her idea on the best way to ensure a good economy in 25 years: Let’s get money out of politics.
“We need to get money out of politics. Unless we do that, it will be hard to work on any other issue. It’s a fundamental issue that needs to be fixed,” and we must “limit election season to make space for rational decision-making to improve lives of everyday people and not big monied groups and lobbyists.”
To learn more about money in politics, check out the following articles:
“The Top 10 Things Every Voter Should Know About Money in Politics, Center for Responsive Politics” (OpenSecrets)
“40 charts that explain money in politics” (Vox)
Marina Gorbis is Executive Director of the Institute for the Future, a nonprofit research and consulting organization based in Silicon Valley. She has brought a futures perspective to hundreds of organizations in business, education, government, and philanthropy.
Gorbis has blogged and written for BoingBoing.net, Fast Company and major media outlets, and is a frequent speaker on future organizational, technology, and social issues. Marina’s current research focus is social production and how it is changing the face of major industries, a topic explored in detail in her 2013 book The Nature of the Future: Dispatches from the Socialstructed World.