# What If Our Biggest Problems Were Designed Never To Be Solved? | Jamie Arbib

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Podcast: [The Dov Baron Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-dov-baron-show-522623)
Published: 2026-07-05T05:05:00+00:00
Episode link: https://sites.libsyn.com/492635
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Climate change. Inequality. Exploitation. We have been trying to fix them for 50 years. The machine keeps running. Jamie Arbib, co-founder of RethinkX and co-author of Stellar, makes a case that most people are not ready to hear: these problems are not failures of the system. They are the system. An extractive production model built on scarce external inputs- land, labor, capital- generates competition by definition. And competition at civilizational scale produces exploitation as a feature, not a bug.

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