John Legend argues that society should focus on investing in resources that edify and build, rather than spending money on policing and jailing people.

“my advocacy work has really been around let's invest in these things that are edifying, that are building, that are productive, that are loving, that are just, and not invest as much as we have in the things that are more destructive and more about the state monopolizing force and violence”

The current metrics for gender equality, such as focusing on billionaire status, are skewed and fail to capture the real structural disadvantages men face in health and education.

“Meanwhile, measures of equality such as education, health outcomes, life expectancy, which are applicable to everybody are not not included at all. We're constantly talking about murders, billionaires, and all these things violent crime like this are very very rare instances.”