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2020-02-07

1,000 True Fans? Try 100

An emerging category of digital platforms is helping people to translate their skills and talents into businesses. But as the creator landscape evolves, the playbook needs updating. More than a decade ago, Wired editor Kevin Kelly wrote an essay called “1,000 True Fans,” predicting that the internet would allow large swaths of people to make a living […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Digital Economy, Digital Environment, New Business Models, values, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

2019-12-09

Modern Monetary Theory, explained

A very detailed walkthrough of the big new left economic idea. Modern Monetary Theory is having a moment. The theory, in brief, argues that countries that issue their own currencies can never “run out of money” the way people or businesses can. But what was once an obscure “heterodox” branch of economics has now become a major topic […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Economic Paradigm, Future of Currency, Future of Economics, Future of Governance, Value, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

2019-08-30

The Earth’s carrying capacity for human life is not fixed

Viewing humans in the same way that we view single-celled organisms or insects risks treating them that way. Malthus argued against Poor Laws, in the belief that they only incentivised the poor to reproduce. Ehrlich argued against food aid for poor countries for similar reasons, and inspired population-control measures of enormous cruelty. Today, demands to […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Groups / Carrying capacity, Co-creation, Constraints, Creating Conditions of Becoming, Human Ecology, Human Evolution, Socio-Technology Frameworks, values, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

2019-07-30

Is the Modern Mass Extinction Overrated?

We are ignoring the gains that balance the losses. If you want to measure how the state of the world is changing, and that’s a valuable thing to do, you need some kind of reference point. It’s natural we take some past point and monitor things into the future. But when you reference back to […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Accounting for Values, Biological Evolution, Cultural Evolution, Fear of the Future, Human Evolution, Restorative Nostalgia, values, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

2018-11-25

Lake Lazarus: the strange rebirth of a Californian ecosystem

Amy Maxmen lauds a study of the bold project to rescue Owens Lake – Adaptation and Survival       California’s Owens Lake, once one of the largest inland bodies of water in the U.S., shrank to nearly nothing in early 20th century. At the start of the twentieth century, Owens Lake in southern California […]

Article posted by John Verdon / Articles, CACOR Values / Adaptation, Ecological Transformation, Evolution, survival, values, Valuing Value Leave a Comment

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