In the nonprofit sector, the term "sustainable" is a euphemism for "can keep doing it" or "financially sustainable."
If a group wants to retain it's privileges (say the banks) it can feed back 1% of its profits to buy politicians off year after year. Campaign finance spending limits just make it cheap.
Ordinary people who want to change the status quo to say, fight corruption or just simply survive the next century in the face of climate change, might expect to fight for 30 years to change the system and face the certainty of falling into despair in that time.
If anybody can find powerful allies they make it much more powerful than they can accomplish "something" even if it isn't what they set out to do.
In the nonprofit sector, the term "sustainable" is a euphemism for "can keep doing it" or "financially sustainable."
If a group wants to retain it's privileges (say the banks) it can feed back 1% of its profits to buy politicians off year after year. Campaign finance spending limits just make it cheap.
Ordinary people who want to change the status quo to say, fight corruption or just simply survive the next century in the face of climate change, might expect to fight for 30 years to change the system and face the certainty of falling into despair in that time.
If anybody can find powerful allies they make it much more powerful than they can accomplish "something" even if it isn't what they set out to do.