I am substantially more interested in finding ways to destroy existing businesses, by replacing processes which previously depended on centralized rent-seeking organizations with collaborative, decentralized, community-driven processes.
It's not yet clear how one would make a living doing this, so it remains a side project.
You do it by transforming the world enough that "making a living" becomes a fundamentally different sort of operation. Hang in there, we're all in this together.
Yeah, I've come to see my primary outlet for political action as the process of building the kinds of structures and organizations I want to participate in, from a local level outward. These tend to take the form of semi-amorphous, self-assembling, non-hierchical temporary groups arising to accomplish specific tasks out of a larger ongoing network of social networks. You can get a lot done this way and it's a very pleasant kind of experience. I'm part of a large extended "tribe" that has repeatedly proven its ability to mobilize substantial resources and manage large complex logistical operations with no permanent hierarchy or profit motive, and that demonstrates that there is some valuable body of social skills and experience present which, so far as I know, nobody has yet laid down in writing for others to pick up. I'd like to see this kind of thing get franchised and spread around, and I'd like to be able to borrow from the practices of other such tribes, but since we don't really have a name for the phenomenon yet or a body of writing about it, it's hard to have a global conversation driving it forward.
Care to elaborate? As skeptical as I am, I'd be genuinely curious if somebody manages to create a decentralized, community driven process successful enough to destroy existing businesses without creating new businesses which other people could then destroy. Commerce begets commerce.
I haven't, though the germ of an idea has been percolating recently. I keep trying and failing to find some sort of how-to book about it, but whenever I bring this up in hopes that somebody knows what I'm talking about, the response tends to be "well why don't you write one".
The recent article in The Guardian titled "The end of capitalism has begun" is closely relevant and has a lot to say on the economic situation driving these kinds of ideas.
Most of the practical experiences I've had so far have come about either through open source software development, or various large, collaborative, non-hierarchical, non-profit-oriented art and festival projects related to the Burning Man community. Several years helping run a makerspace have also contributed.
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I am substantially more interested in finding ways to destroy existing businesses, by replacing processes which previously depended on centralized rent-seeking organizations with collaborative, decentralized, community-driven processes.
It's not yet clear how one would make a living doing this, so it remains a side project.
You do it by transforming the world enough that "making a living" becomes a fundamentally different sort of operation. Hang in there, we're all in this together.
Yeah, I've come to see my primary outlet for political action as the process of building the kinds of structures and organizations I want to participate in, from a local level outward. These tend to take the form of semi-amorphous, self-assembling, non-hierchical temporary groups arising to accomplish specific tasks out of a larger ongoing network of social networks. You can get a lot done this way and it's a very pleasant kind of experience. I'm part of a large extended "tribe" that has repeatedly proven its ability to mobilize substantial resources and manage large complex logistical operations with no permanent hierarchy or profit motive, and that demonstrates that there is some valuable body of social skills and experience present which, so far as I know, nobody has yet laid down in writing for others to pick up. I'd like to see this kind of thing get franchised and spread around, and I'd like to be able to borrow from the practices of other such tribes, but since we don't really have a name for the phenomenon yet or a body of writing about it, it's hard to have a global conversation driving it forward.
Example?
Short stock? :)
Care to elaborate? As skeptical as I am, I'd be genuinely curious if somebody manages to create a decentralized, community driven process successful enough to destroy existing businesses without creating new businesses which other people could then destroy. Commerce begets commerce.
This sounds interesting. Have you written about your ideas?
I haven't, though the germ of an idea has been percolating recently. I keep trying and failing to find some sort of how-to book about it, but whenever I bring this up in hopes that somebody knows what I'm talking about, the response tends to be "well why don't you write one".
The recent article in The Guardian titled "The end of capitalism has begun" is closely relevant and has a lot to say on the economic situation driving these kinds of ideas.
Most of the practical experiences I've had so far have come about either through open source software development, or various large, collaborative, non-hierarchical, non-profit-oriented art and festival projects related to the Burning Man community. Several years helping run a makerspace have also contributed.