Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution

Serve the community as a way to feed the self.

Systems thinking has a name for this kind of arrangement. It’s called suboptimization: allowing a subsystem to benefit, to the detriment of the whole.

NAMING AIDS SEEING

There are no separate systems.

generative economy

consequences. That’s true. But had they made the unwise choice of buying bad meat from a careless slaughterhouse, we wouldn’t lay the blame on them. Our society doesn’t allow the sale of tainted meat.

Reinforcing feedback loops amplify behavior.

“People living in an explosion are different, just as people living in a war zone are different,”

When we can’t see this, it’s because we’ve left no room for it in our imagination.