What is the fundamental problem with our economic and monetary system? Is it scarcity of resources or insatiable demand? An even more fundamental question might be; what is our economic system and how does it work?
It is obvious that there are winners and losers in this system and mechanisms which facilitate and preserve the status quo. Yet in sheer material terms the standard and quality of life has been exponentially better under this capitalist economic system than previous or competing systems. What are the possibilities for capitalism moving forward? Is widening disparity the cost of technological and social gains?
On Tuesday, May 14, Tunde Wey will collaborate with the Prairie Whale restaurant in Great Barrington for The Winner’s Table, a dinner to explore the role of capital in fostering durable equality. We hope to gather over good food to discuss our individual and collective roles and responsibilities in a system that has been so generous to the winners and ruthless to the losers. Over multiple delicious courses and fine drink, we hope to consider what it means to be at The Winner’s Table and how, if it is at all possible, to welcome everyone to the party.
Tickets are $125 each. If you are in a position to pay for an additional ticket, we will use it to broaden the makeup of guests at the table. If you would like to attend and need a reduced pricing option, please email schumacher@centerforneweconomics.org.
The dinner starts at 6PM with a game and will end at 8:30PM with a plan.
We hope you can join us at The Winner’s Table.
About the Artist:
Tunde Wey is a Nigerian immigrant, interdisciplinary artist living between Nigeria and the United States, working at the intersection of food and the political economy. He uses performance and installation, film, food, writing and finance to confront material disparities and attempt interventions. You can read a bit about his work in GQ, Time Magazine and The New Yorker.
Tunde is currently in the process of launching his investment fund NO CAP. NO CAP seeks to use capital as a transformative tool in underserved communities across the U.S. by providing working capital to BIPOC-owned enterprises.
About the Schumacher Center:
Founded in 1980 the Schumacher Center for a New Economics works to envision the elements of a just and regenerative global economy; undertakes to apply these elements in its home region of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts; and then develops the educational programs to share the results more broadly, thus encouraging replication. We recognize that the environmental and equity crises we now face have their roots in the current economic system.
