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Do we still want the future desired by the past?
Why three socialist utopian novels are still relevant 100 years later.
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Elle Griffin
30
Mondragon as the new City-State
This cooperative could be its own country.
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Elle Griffin
120
Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees
This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
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Elle Griffin
49
Every company should be sold to its employees
Central States Manufacturing as a model for exiting to employee-ownership.
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Elle Griffin
102
You’d still work if you didn’t have to
But it would feel more like play.
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Elle Griffin
99
Maybe you need to have more fun
"Fun" as essential to human flourishing.
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Elle Griffin
65
Who's qualified to save the world?
Two climate dystopias on our unlikeable saviors.
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Elle Griffin
63
“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
132
Substack could create the future of books
Here’s how that could look.
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Elle Griffin
234
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
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