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Carregando... This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous Worldde Yancey Strickler
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"Western society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) That the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) That we're individuals trapped in an adversarial world, and 3) That this is natural and inevitable. These ideas separate us, keep us powerless, and limit our imagination for the future. We see them as truth. They're not. They're a point of view that previous generations accepted. It's time we replace them with something new. This Could Be Our Future is about how we got here, and how we change course. While the pursuit of wealth has produced innovation and prosperity, it also established an implicit belief that the right choice in every decision is whichever option makes the most money. This belief in financial maximization has produced dire consequences: environmental collapse, corruption, inequality, and a growing dissatisfaction around the world. The answer isn't to get rid of money; it's to expand our concept of value. By assigning rational value to other values besides money--things like community, purpose, and sustainability--we can refocus our energies to build a society that's generous, fair, and ready for the future. By recalibrating our definition of value, a world of scarcity can become a world of abundance. Hopeful but firmly grounded, full of concrete solutions and bursting with creativity, This Could Be Our Future brilliantly dissects the world we live in and shows us a road map to the world we are capable of making"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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It's a fine book. I guess the need for it says more about society than the author.
It also struck me as very odd to see repeated references to 2050 without any mention of the importance of that date in climate/carbon terms. (It always strikes me as odd, nowadays, when anyone claims to write about the future without having a solid sense of what that means in climate terms.) Environmental sustainability was in the text as a value, and climate change was mentioned, but my sense is that the author is largely unaware of the extent of the threat posed by this crisis to the future he champions, or the foundational necessity of including climate outcomes in any values decisions affecting the future. You cannot end up with a happy 2050 with future citizens talking about value maximization in bentoism offices if the subway network has been wiped out by repeated flooding and the power grid no longer reliably operates. I just did a very quick google search of 2050 climate impacts on the lower east side, referenced repeatedly in his book, and the picture is pretty grim. The storefront he imagines may no longer exist or be accessible, and if it does, it will be in a neighbourhood vastly restructured to maintain its viability.
If you are writing about the future, and you are not including climate impacts, decarbonization, economic transitions, and adaptation projects, you are writing a fairy tale; and moreover, your fairy tale is damaging. We need more authors to understand this. (