by A year or so ago, I posted twenty-five names and then added five more that have been suggested for the next economy. (BTW, an APF colleague Bryan Alexander pointed me to an excellent piece in the Atlantic on the “End of Work.”) The new addition to the “what’s the next economy” — the Slack economy — comes from another APF colleague, Nick Price, and his excellent “Of things immaterial” blog
- Slack. It is more about entrepreneurship and monetization of slack resources, where individuals take a small scrape of profit for connecting sellers to buyers, with accumulating transactions scraping across many parties, e,g, Airbnb.
“Slack” came to my attention in a discussion that the sharing economy is not really “sharing” per se. I agree that one can take sharing too literally. We still have to put more meat on the bones of all these concepts below, and I suspect we’re heading to a future in which lots of these concepts are operative. I suppose it is misleading to suggest that we will soon transform to a world without currency and economic value. Perhaps it’s more helpful to think of a long transition period toward which people have access to the things they need with less-and-less transaction and value-added costs, and the system and its players are playing a win-win rather than a win-lose game.
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17. Open source 18. Post-capitalist 19. Post-Growth 20. Post-industrial 21. Purpose 22. Regenerative 23. Relationship 24. Resilient 25. Second 26. Sharing 27. Slack 28. Soft Path 29. Steady-state 30. Sustainable 31. Wisdom |
So, perhaps we can cut the sharing economy a bit of slack? — Andy Hines
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