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Unverified Revelations's avatar

I noticed: your three options roughly correspond to "voice, exit, loyalty."

Also, your pro-social examples (veganism, recycling) are highly legible examples of pro-social signalling that a certain generation of activists will approve of, but which don't necessarily correspond to actual pro-social contribution or stewardship at all (recycling is in many cases fake, veganism which relies on extended overseas supply chains, etc).

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Lisa Di Buduo's avatar

Love it Rich 💟 Thank you because you invite me - again - to review my escape-from-reality approach. And choose the Microsolidarity approach, once more.

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Jan Demiralp's avatar

How would option three play out practically in your kitchen example? I'm trying to get my head around it. Really great article on a very timely and important topic. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

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Richard D. Bartlett's avatar

we'd talk about proposals to improve the commons management, agree on an experiment, run it for a few days then review and iterate. most likely it would gradually increase in scope and complexity as the system grows and adapts to it's context

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Jan Demiralp's avatar

In my mind it relates somewhat to the agile manifesto growing in popularity in the corporate sphere. The idea of democratic decision making and iterative design and creation especially.

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Pascal's avatar

Great and inspiring read. I like that you frame it as going political. I guess that is what citizens should take back and apply to their local environment, the political process

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