Curating Content To Support Learning About Humanity's Transition

This content was posted on  24 Nov 20  by   Douglas Rushkoff  on  Facebook Page
With local businesses going under and stocks tanking anyway, why not invest what’s left of …

With local businesses going under and stocks tanking anyway, why not invest what’s left of our savings into the restaurants, bookstores, and barbershops we frequent, ourselves? We can apply rolling loans to getting one another out of debt. The Rolling Jubilee, conceived by members of Occupy Wall Street, has already bought and abolished over $34 million of student and medical debt, for just pennies on the dollar.

Instead of cutting jobs from our companies or competing for scarce jobs, how about turning them into cooperatives and earning equity through labor? Or creating a local favor bank or mutual aid fund for those in greatest need — which also means having it available when our own fortunes turn? These are the kinds of economic practices that work even when you don’t have an underclass to exploit. They’re based in distributing and recirculating prosperity, instead of robbing it from others.

https://gen.medium.com/americas-black-communities-created-the-blueprint-for-collective-recovery-e89e792dc124

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Black communities have for centuries harbored a spirit of support and mutual aid. It’s time the rest of the country followed their lead.


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