I will be buying the $10 (plus $3 shipping) pamphlet as I prefer hard copy that can control. I have seen something recently (on the Tree of Woe Substack?) about Amazon and perhaps other tech content suppliers changing their terms of service to retain full rights to that content that the user then only rents or leases via their digital do…
I will be buying the $10 (plus $3 shipping) pamphlet as I prefer hard copy that can control. I have seen something recently (on the Tree of Woe Substack?) about Amazon and perhaps other tech content suppliers changing their terms of service to retain full rights to that content that the user then only rents or leases via their digital download. And the supplier can retrieve (or alter) that content later if they so desire. I don't expect that here, but ...
I may not have time to more fully check out the companion items on this Substack but they do sound interesting, if perhaps not in sync with my own preferences. I have no problem with the idea of city-states have greater local control vs. state levels, but I am seeped in the federalism concept as a multi-level governance model, so the remaining question is just what kind of "sovereignty" does each level have vs. the level above it? AKA, sharing and controlling the distribution of "power" to the level best able to address the issues thereon appertaining.
A headline on this site about employees owning their company is nonsense except as they buy stock, use 401K, etc. But I do endorse such investment type ownership of "something", if not always or fully the firm where you work. (Some advisors would claim that is too much income concentration and risk placed on one source, so some level of diversification is better). Some of the other titles probably also fall within ideas I will find questionable or flawed. Hope I have time to examine the most interesting ones.
I hope you enjoy the pamphlet! I agree that publishing hasn't favorited the creatives as of late, but I've been working to try options that do. This is one of them!
I'm with you that federation is an important part of the equation. We definitely shouldn't decentralize all the way down to the smallest entity—that's how we create the kind of despotic city states Germany once had.
As for employees owning their companies—yes, I'm talking about through stocks and equity. That is what employee ownership means! And I agree it shouldn't be the only source of ownership a worker has (though it would be better than none, as is the case for many workers). Diversification is important, and I'll be talking about a lot of the ways people can own more equity in the future (not just in where they work!)
But of course everything we do here is a collaborative project—the importance is not to agree about things, but to think about things together. It's a collective form of brainstorming about what is better. So I'll appreciate your thoughts as we go!
I will be buying the $10 (plus $3 shipping) pamphlet as I prefer hard copy that can control. I have seen something recently (on the Tree of Woe Substack?) about Amazon and perhaps other tech content suppliers changing their terms of service to retain full rights to that content that the user then only rents or leases via their digital download. And the supplier can retrieve (or alter) that content later if they so desire. I don't expect that here, but ...
I may not have time to more fully check out the companion items on this Substack but they do sound interesting, if perhaps not in sync with my own preferences. I have no problem with the idea of city-states have greater local control vs. state levels, but I am seeped in the federalism concept as a multi-level governance model, so the remaining question is just what kind of "sovereignty" does each level have vs. the level above it? AKA, sharing and controlling the distribution of "power" to the level best able to address the issues thereon appertaining.
A headline on this site about employees owning their company is nonsense except as they buy stock, use 401K, etc. But I do endorse such investment type ownership of "something", if not always or fully the firm where you work. (Some advisors would claim that is too much income concentration and risk placed on one source, so some level of diversification is better). Some of the other titles probably also fall within ideas I will find questionable or flawed. Hope I have time to examine the most interesting ones.
I hope you enjoy the pamphlet! I agree that publishing hasn't favorited the creatives as of late, but I've been working to try options that do. This is one of them!
I'm with you that federation is an important part of the equation. We definitely shouldn't decentralize all the way down to the smallest entity—that's how we create the kind of despotic city states Germany once had.
As for employees owning their companies—yes, I'm talking about through stocks and equity. That is what employee ownership means! And I agree it shouldn't be the only source of ownership a worker has (though it would be better than none, as is the case for many workers). Diversification is important, and I'll be talking about a lot of the ways people can own more equity in the future (not just in where they work!)
But of course everything we do here is a collaborative project—the importance is not to agree about things, but to think about things together. It's a collective form of brainstorming about what is better. So I'll appreciate your thoughts as we go!