This session will lay out an actionable plan to achieve a post-capitalist economic interaction system by which we all thrive, with more effective ways to participate economically so we all achieve more leisure/comfort, and less inequality/stress.
Humanity has at its command enough technology and resources that we could all live really well, not just marginally survive. All of us.
Ending starvation, poverty, homelessness, providing healthcare - all worthwhile, but far short of what we can achieve by truly, universally, and effectively aligning our work, knowledge and resources.
Capitalists have cowed us with dogma, fear and greed, steeped in an environment where we are induced to believe everything is zero-sum, dog-eat-dog competition, and "they" decide what to provide with only lip service to what we want - jobs, goods and services, housing, food, interest rates. (And by the power of the wealth they take from all the rest of us, they control the making of laws, regulations and policies, such that what ought to be illegal and not done, is allowed to be standard practice.)
We'll look at a model that turns all the norms on their head to achieve a way to interact by which we can prioritize the environment and ALL people, so we all win.
• Harnessing energy should free us from work – not put us out of their jobs so we have to fight each other while groveling for their next job.
• Mass production and tech should make things more available and cheaper, and at the same time more customized – not shortages of what we want that jack prices or overages that get wastefully thrown out.
• Communication should facilitate producing nearly exactly the right amount of everything – not be victims of business risk of the business cycle (the boom-and-bust that execs and owners point at in rationalizing their obscene inequality).
• Exceptional ideas upvoted to the top get facilitated, making everyone's life better – not unsupported and ignored, and not scooped up by megalithic corporations either to milk for highest profit or to shelve so they don't have to out-compete the new ideas.
https://discordapp.com/channels/909777704432324618/1420372101977604097
Please note that this session room has limited capacity, and attendance will be accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis.
Daniel runs a non-profit foundation Kendraio Foundation funding tech-for-good infrastructure. The main funded project is an app that can build apps.
To the dinner table my Dad brought business perspective from his running a small business. My Mom brought decades working at USAID where she advocated developing countries organize and improve themselves so all could live well.
I graduated with an Economics degree, but it was based on tweaking what is (i.e., subjective econ), rather than scientifically developing what could be better (i.e., no normative econ).
Since then, I have spent decades looking at ideas wherever I could find them of how to do a better economy, and analyzing how things being done today could be done better to spread economic power all the way down to individuals.