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duncan

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Resource Generation (for youth with class privilege)

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Resource Generation (for youth with class privilege)

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duncan

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Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project

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Movement Generation Justice and Ecology Project

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New Economics — Foundational Criteria by Daniel Schmachtenberger

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New Economics — Foundational Criteria by Daniel Schmachtenberger

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https://medium.com/@danielschmachtenberger/new-economics-foundational-criteria-445d45d777c9

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Essential design constraint: At all points, the system must vector towards omni-win-win dynamics. (At no points can it incent win-lose dynamics.)

Understanding win-lose dynamics:

Win-lose taxonomy: Obsoleting the impulse towards win-lose dynamics systemically requires obsoleting each category of win-lose dynamic:

1. Agent vs other agents

2. Agent vs the system/commons

3. Agent vs themselves (parts conflicts)

Win-lose generator function: all types of win-lose dynamics result from the perception of separable interest. Ie, from perceiving various values/agents/metrics within the system as being irreconcilably dichotomous.

Win-lose system processes: in a fundmentally win-lose system where various agents/goals/values are seen as dichotomous and thus competing for scarce resource, the best macro dynamics are achieved through processes of optimization (in the allocation of scarce resource) and game theoretic equilibria (of choice patterns for competitive agents).

Win-lose upper bounds: The following are hard upper limits to system abundance in win-lose systems:

In non-cooperative games, the ideal system-equilibria points (eg Nash Equilibria) are generally worse for all players than the global optimum, which is unstable.

The global optimum is generally significantly worse than what could be achieved by changing the context to a cooperative game.

Finding equilibrium points in complex systems is generally impossible (NP complete).

The difficulty of complexity (when all the agents/values/metrics are competing for scarce resource) creates a need to simplify, leading to reductionistic models and value metrics, leading to externality.

Where information creates advantage, win-lose dynamics will incent disinformation, leading to decreased system coherence and increased entropy.

Understanding win-win dynamics:

Win-win taxonomy: Creating the impulse towards win-win dynamics systemically requires creating win-win dynamics in each category:

1. Alignment of the well-being of agents with each other

2. Alignment of the well-being of agents with the commons

3. Alignment of the well-being of agents with themselves (resolving parts conflicts)

Win-win generator function: win-win dynamics arise from the perception of symbiotic/interconnected interest. Ie, from perceiving various values/agents/metrics within the system as dialectics to be simultaneously (synergistically) supported via a higher order synthesis process.

Win-Win system processes: in a fundamentally win-win system where various agents/goals/values are seen as interconnected and thus inter-benefitable, the best macro dynamics are achieved through an integrated design process, where each of the various agents/values/goals are taken as design constraints to be factored simultaneously, synergies sought and maximized, and a whole-system integrated design process engaged in that results in optimum system integrity.
Win-win lower bounds:

Integrated system design processes have no irreconcilably mismatched incentives, so all movement is towards global optimum.

The increased resource advantage of obsoleting unnecessary entropy and maximizing positive synergies means the global design result will always be more totally advantageous than the global gaming optimum.

An integrated design process does not require NP computation.

Design requires having all the constraints clear first, which is an impulse away from reductionism and towards information fidelity.

In a win-win system engaging in design, disinformation is always disadvantageous to all involved, and transparency is optimally incentivized.

Side by side distinctions:

Thermodynamics:

Win-lose games require and create high entropy.

Win-win games require and create high synergy.

Fluid Dynamics:

Win-lose games require and create turbulent flows.

Win-win games require and create laminar flows.

Information:

Win-lose games require and incent disinformation.

Win-win games require and incent transparency and vetting.

Value Metrics:

Win-lose games must have very narrow value metrics.

Win-win games have increasingly and unboundedly complex value metrics.

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Essential design constraint: At all points, the system must vector towards omni-win-win dynamics. (At no points can it incent win-lose dynamics.) Win-lose taxonomy: Obsoleting the impulse towards win-lose dynamics systemically requires obsoleting each category of win-lose dynamic: Agent vs other agents Agent vs the system/commons Agent vs themselves (parts conflicts) Win-lose generator function: all types of win-lose dynamics result from the perception of separable interest.

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panel from local worker cooperatives - i.e. Arizmendi, MUA, Design Action Collective, etc.

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panel from local worker cooperatives - i.e. Arizmendi, MUA, Design Action Collective, etc.

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Local  biz challenge - invest in/buy from local BIPOC owned businesses

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Local  biz challenge - invest in/buy from local BIPOC owned businesses

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Book - Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

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Book - Sacred Economics by Charles Eisenstein

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Book - Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva

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Book - Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva

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Bay Area Community Land Trust https://www.bayareaclt.org/

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Bay Area Community Land Trust https://www.bayareaclt.org/

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Bay Area Community Land Trust (BACLT) is a community organization creating permanently affordable and sustainable communities of cooperative homeowners.

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Operates fully on gift economy

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Food security and the transformation of food systems

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Food security and the transformation of food systems

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ARM contact-happy to connect

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Higher Ground Wellness, created by Maya Emelle, is a retreat dedicated to helping people of color improve their emotional, mental, physical and financial wellbeing.

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East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative

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East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative

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Brahm Ahmadi from Community Foods Market

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Brahm Ahmadi from Community Foods Market

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He launched a creative community-investor model to raise capital for this market that tackles a food desert.  Brahm was formerly the co-founder of People's Grocery also in West Oakland

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http://nobawc.org/

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The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives or NoBAWC is a grassroots organization of democratic workplaces dedicated to building workplace democracy in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. NoBAWC is comprised primarily of worker cooperatives.
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Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives About NoBAWC The Network of Bay Area Worker Cooperatives or NoBAWC is a grassroots organization of democratic workplaces dedicated to building workplace democracy in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. NoBAWC is comprised primarily of worker cooperatives. Learn

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https://www.usworker.coop

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U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives - Work it. Own It.

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Including his radio show each week (Economic Update), and his organization Democracy at Work, and his many books on the topic of worker-owned cooperatives and socialism.  https://www.democracyatwork.info/

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2021 Hardcover Edition with new Introduction

We offer this introductory book now because of the power and usefulness today of Marx's criticism of the capitalist economic system. The 2021 hardcover edition features a new introduction by author Richard D. Wolff, which strengthens the case for why Marxism is worth understanding. It explains and shares our excitement about the ways in which Marxism helps us to critically rethink capitalism today, and offers new directions for social development beyond and better than the capitalism we have.

"Marxism always was the critical shadow of capitalism. Their interactions changed them both. Now Marxism is once again stepping into the light as capitalism shakes from its own excesses and confronts decline."
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Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People? (2021) is the work of award-winning print and broadcast journalist Robert "Bob" Hennelly. Its depth reflects his many decades of on-the-ground reporting, from the streets to historical archives and the White House. Stuck Nation lifts up the stories of those whom our capitalist system would otherwise see 'disappeared'. It bears the human cost of our system and our silence. It holds accounts of individuals and a broader movement willing to put everything at risk to change our national narrative.

In this unique collection of over 50 essays, The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself (2020), Richard D. Wolff argues clearly that "returning to normal" no longer responds adequately to the accumulated problems of US capitalism. What is necessary, instead, is transition toward a new economic system that works for all of us.

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Understanding Socialism by Richard D. Wolff (2019) tackles the taboos and unveils the often hidden histories of socialism, but most importantly it offers a way forward: a socialism built on democracy in the workplace. A blend of history, analysis and opinion, Understanding Socialism is an honest and approachable text that knocks down false narratives, confronts failures, and offers a path to a new socialism based on workplace democracy.
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Understanding Marxismby Richard D. Wolff (2018). Americans especially now confront serious questions and evidences that our capitalist system is in trouble. It clearly serves the 1% far, far better than what is is doing to the vast mass of people. Marx was a social critic for whom capitalism was not the end of human history. It was just the latest phase and badly needed the transition to something better. We offer this essay now because of the power and usefulness today of Marx's criticism of the capitalist economic system.

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Especially Ricardo who directs the work on cooperatives there

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Considered one of the leading models of cooperative economic development in the entire country.