This Could Be Our Future
A Manifesto for a More Generous World
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Yancy Strickler
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Yancey Strickler
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Break free from a wealth-obsessed world.
Western society is trapped by three assumptions:
- The point of life is to maximise your self-interest and wealth
- We're individuals trapped in an adversarial world
- That this path is inevitable
These ideas separate us, keep us powerless and limit our imagination for the future. We see them as the truth, but they are just a point of view that previous generations accepted as inevitable. It's time we replace them with something new.
In this bold, powerful book, Yancey Strickler - cofounder of Kickstarter - lays out an inspiring vision for a new world we have the power to create and how we can change course. While the pursuit of wealth has produced innovation and prosperity, it's also produced dire consequences: environmental collapse, corruption, exploitation and unhappiness around the world. We don't have to get rid of money entirely, though: we can co-opt the tools we have used toward better measurement of what matters, technology and specificity of goals - and refocus them to build a more generous, fair and future-prepared society. By recalibrating our definition of value, a world of scarcity can blossom into a world of abundance.
Hopeful but firmly grounded, full of concrete examples and bursting with creativity, This Could Be Our Future brilliantly dissects the world we live in and shows us a road map to the world we are capable of making.
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- Ronald Poon
- 04-07-2020
It is in your BEST SELF-INTEREST to read this book!!!
SIMPLY OUTSTANDING
Yancey provides a clear framework of what we need to do to help move the world forward and shift away from our current “financial maximisation” narrative.
The book is highly engaging, incredibly well-researched and surprisingly practical! I wasn’t expecting to come away with so much practical wisdom and inspiration!
A TRUE MUST-READ for anyone interested in society, values and progress AND want to help make the world a better place! ❤️
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