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"People get buried in a blizzard of financial terms that obfuscates—makes opaque—what is going on, furthers the paradigm of, “We’ll just take care of you. Here are the reports—full of jargon and charts and analytics that are virtually meaningless to you."
The Ford Foundation believes we have an obligation to strengthen capitalism. In fact we have a duty to transform it.
There are currently an estimated 10 million employee owners in the U.S. What if that number grew to 50 million by 2050?
Like an extended smashing of atoms, the 9-to-5 job market has shattered and splintered over the past 25 years in ways that have both liberated and trapped millions of workers.
Using patterns enables people to communicate common ideas about complex relationships more easily and to seamlessly combine theoretical research with its practical application.
Today, the purchasing power of any given person determines how much and which type of food he can get access to – or physically produce it by own private means- as almost every single piece of food on Earth is already a private good. Or not?
City governments are shaping up as key actors accelerating worker co-op development.
Here I propose a new term that might combine the advantages of the word degrowth with those of its more positive alternatives.
You cannot think about the commons if you don’t ask yourself at the same time who creates them, who cares for them, who protects them and who reproduces them.
We can choose to support businesses that actually make our communities more resilient rather than extracting local wealth and resources.
Economic insecurity is the American nightmare.
Platform co-ops, and the burgeoning movement behind them, are big news.
