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Every company should be owned by its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for employee-ownership.
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Elle Griffin
78
You’d still work if you didn’t have to
But it would feel more like play.
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Elle Griffin
95
Maybe you need to have more fun
"Fun" as essential to human flourishing.
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Elle Griffin
64
Who's qualified to save the world?
Two climate dystopias on our unlikeable saviors.
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Elle Griffin
59
“Friends” as the ideal community
The one where communes aren't the answer.
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Elle Griffin
69
I’d rather have an investor than a publishing contract
In pursuit of a better book deal (and record deal and podcast deal...)
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Elle Griffin
130
Substack could create the future of books
Here’s how that could look.
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Elle Griffin
235
I'm not going to have kids to save the economy
Not on my list of reasons to have children.
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Elle Griffin
29
Could AI make us wise?
An alternative to the internet making us stupid.
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Elle Griffin
42
The unbearable necessity of being online
On loving and loathing the internet as an artist and why we need to be here anyway.
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Elle Griffin
58
Please come up with wildly speculative futures
Inside my writing philosophy.
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Elle Griffin
22
I'd like to open a Singapore franchise please?
Franchise Cities as an alternative to Charter Cities.
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Elle Griffin
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