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Capitalism

If you have a social mission, go into business
An interview with Frederick Freundlich about working at Mondragon, participating in a cooperative, and building social companies.
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Companies are the new City-States
That’s why we need to build better ones.
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Metanational corporations are redesigning the world map
Parag Khanna on metanational corporations and how they are opening borders, reshaping geopolitics, and creating a world of interconnected city-states.
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Parag
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The Cooperatist Manifesto that inspired Mondragon
Father José María Arizmendiarrieta didn’t just imagine a better economic system, he built it.
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Mondragon as the new City-State
This cooperative could be its own country.
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Founders get much richer by selling to employees
This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
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Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for exiting to employee-ownership.
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Why I’m not a free market capitalist
Yet.
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The rich are not causing the poor
Oxfam and the phrase “the rich are getting richer while the poor are getting poorer.”
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Digital nomads are opening borders
Not just the office.
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This could be our economy in the year 2100
We could design a solarpunk future.
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Elle Griffin
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We need to grow our economy to advance humanity
But that doesn't mean we need to destroy the environment making flying cars.
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Elle Griffin
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We don't need to "degrow" the economy
To save the environment.
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Elle Griffin
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Remote work could solve global poverty
Open the digital borders.
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Elle Griffin
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An alternative to "tax the rich"
It’s not wealth that’s the problem, it’s the distribution of it.
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What if its not cool to be a bad capitalist anymore?
Then will companies behave better?
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What is the point of profit?
Because "to make shareholders rich" isn't good enough anymore.
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A brief history of capitalism (& socialism & communism)
All in one essay. And explained using musical theater references for some reason.
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