How We Get To Next
howwegettonext.com · Group blog · on HN since 2014
How We Get To Next is a publication on the history and future of technology, cities, money, and science.
What HN saysHN commenters link its long article on Medellín's cable cars as a strong piece on the topic; otherwise it is cited as a reference.
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jeremyboom8 · 2019-06-12
For my own learning, I have combined this book with anthropology professor David Graeber's book 'Debt: The First 5000 Years' - which is already mentioned in OP's list. In his book, David debunks the myth that before we had monetary currencies, we had barter. He gives us beautiful descriptions of indigenous cultural practices around sharing resources; their use of gift economy principles.
I know - this all sounds crazy right?
The author Brett Scott has an easy to follow blog post where he helps the reader explore the many paradigm shifts needed to break the thought patterns behind our economic system:
https://howwegettonext.com/the-future-of-money-depends-on-busting-the-…
billiob · 2017-10-27
HowWeGetToNext had a great (and lengthy) article on that topic: https://howwegettonext.com/cable-cars-are-changing-the-world-61f2b803c…
thulecitizen · 2020-04-23
I just re-edited the above comment - does this new edit answer the question you ask?
> You for instance (forgive me getting personal) don't have to engage in high volume trading products using Blackrock Aladdin. You can just get a job, get paid, and spend what you earn.
The problem is that because of the monopoly on today's money, I am literally unable to not take part in society (in the way you describe) without at some point being negatively affected by the slippery things Wall Street does. An example is the recent US government bailouts during COVID-19, which means we are basically paying to clean up corporate fuck-ups caused by the effects of the extremely risky and parasitic ‘financial products’ sold by these big financial institutions.
Leilani Farha, a Canadian human rights lawyer working as the UN's special rapporteur on adequate housing, provides an inside look into one of these dark patterns in the 2019 documentary 'Push'[1]. It focuses on the financialization of housing and in it Blackstone's blueprints are laid out in full. They've now started a new fund to buy more 'distressed real estate' in Europe [2], repeating the same heist they pulled off during the '08 crash. It comes down to buying up housing and becoming landlords en-masse for society's most vulnerable, extracting rents from them, turning neighborhoods (groups of homes) into financial instruments/products, and selling a stake in such a financial product as just another commodity on the market. Yet…