While most of my time is spent looking for positive guiding images of the future, I think it’s important to look at a …
After Capitalism Top 10 Shifts: #1 From First To Second Tier Values
Another way to phrase this is: From ONE-RIGHT-WAY (traditional, modern, and postmodern) VALUES to MULTIPLE WAYS …
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The Role of Values in After Capitalism
With the proverbial magic wand, and one change to make to facilitate the transformation to After Capitalism, I choose …. …
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Convenience Is the Enemy
What is the mindset change needed to facilitate the transformation to After Capitalism? Put differently, what is the …
Peak Capitalism? Values Shifts and Capitalism
Values shifts are central to the long-term transformation to After Capitalism. A year ago I asked readers to rate which …
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Capitalism Out of Synch with Shifting Values
The advent of the Industrial Revolution launched modern values and solidified capitalism as the dominant economic …
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Shifting values driving towards After Capitalism
Back in November, we did a ranking of the key drivers influencing the move to After Capitalism. We start with the …
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Profit or Purpose? Open AI & After Capitalism
There are differing views on how to run an economy. I think most of us here see an After Capitalism future. But we’re …
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It’s okay to think big
I may be preaching to the choir, but perhaps I can provide some support for big thinkers … as we become an increasingly …
Use productivity for more or less?
So, we meet again. Another opportunity to decide how we want to use productivity gains on the road to After Capitalism. …
Scharmer’s Eco-System Approach fits After Capitalism
This semester in our Alternative Perspectives course at Houston Foresight, we ran into Otto Scharmer a couple of times, …
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Top Ten Drivers of the Future 2023
We all love lists. I posted a drivers list a year-ish ago. I thought it would be fun to revisit and see if anything …
After Capitalism on FuturePod
It was great to hash out some After Capitalism with Australian futurist Peter Hayward on FuturePod. For those not in the …
Future of Values
This week I’m sharing a podcast I did with futurist Joanna Lepore on the future of values. It's a favorite topic of mine …
Values and After Capitalism
The three guiding images for After Capitalism each have their own story and appeal. Today, let’s look at the values …
Lazy Socialists
The unfortunate aspects of Whole Food’s CEO John Mackey’s comments about youth being “lazy socialists” is that they are …
Traditional values have problems, too
I have “picked” on the postmoderns a few times with posts about the “mean green meme.” Green, by the way, comes from the …
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Money still does not buy happiness
For years I’d been relying on the World Values Survey data that showed that when one is poor more money increases …
The Red and Blue Values Split
Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich recently wrote about “Facing America's Second Civil War.” While he sees it more as a …
Think critically and integrally
I saw a slogan today to “demand data and think critically.” Demands for data too often serve as a lazy substitute for …
Top Ten Drivers of the Future?
I recently had the opportunity to brief a group on the key drivers shaping World Futures. I have taught a class by that …
Looking forward rather than backward
I’ve talked about the mean green meme a few times in the last year as an unfortunate detour in the long-term development …
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Tribalism as a Lubricant for Collapse
Tribalism is being used as an umbrella term to capture strong group loyalties that have been making it difficult for the …
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Values Shifts the Key to After Capitalism?
I think so! As I get closer to the end and conclusions are dancing around in head, more and more I’m in some sense …
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Visions of the future over time
Back in 1995, influential economist Robert Heilbroner was given the opportunity to look at the role of visions in …
After Capitalism Drivers
Do you want to play a game? (yes, a Saw reference) While I’ve continued scanning for the After Capitalism book, a few …
The Neoliberal Capitalist Story
“Social responsibility”….[is a] fundamentally subversive doctrine” in a free society….“there is one and only one social …
I Am Not a Consumer: Values and After Capitalism
Shifting values are a key part of the “after capitalism” story. It’s not just about economics, it’s really about our way …
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ConsumerShift availability on Amazon fixed
If anyone has tried to get ConsumerShift in the last few months, you may have wondered why the price was routinely over …
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Careful in mixing ideology and values
My first reaction to a Sunday NY Times piece asked “Are Western Values Losing their Sway?” was to ask whether the …
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