January 15, 2021
Yet it still comes as a great surprise to everyone when 'doing more of what's failed
spectacularly' ends up collapsing the whole rotten structure.
Many people dismiss my proposed alternative (CLIME) as too idealistic to work in the real world. Nobody says corporations are too idealistic to work in the real world, yet CLIME is a system of community owned and run corporations. The only difference between the two is the purpose and ownership.
CLIME: Community Owned Corporations
The world has entered an era of profound uncertainty. The Old Normal is gone for good, and the deck is shifting ominously beneath our feet. Now is the moment to ask: what would a fairer, more sustainable system look like? How would it be better for me, humanity and the planet?
Even before the global upheavals, our system was failing. Now that it's unraveling, it's time for a new arrangement that's actually sustainable on our resource-depleted planet that doesn't favor wealthy insiders. But those gorging on inequality will never accept reforms that strip away their unearned privileges, and so the only practical way forward is a Hacker's Teleology .
What's a Hacker's Teleology ? A hack is a workaround in a kludgy, broken system-- a new way of connecting the dots . Teleology means the destination we end up reaching because that's where the dots lead .
In this book I connect the dots of my own life experiences to show how a sustainably fair way of organizing human activity would work. In telling my story , I'm also telling our story , because we all share our limited-resources world and the same aspirations for fairness, belonging, getting ahead and a say in our future.
So let's get started on an arrangement that actually works for all of us--and our world. Read excerpts of the book for free (PDF).
The Story Behind the Book and the Introduction .
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