This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World

GDP sees Wikipedia as possibly having a negative value. If there wasn’t Wikipedia people would still buy encyclopedias. And all those volunteer Wikipedia editors could do something really valuable with their time, like work for money.

However GDP makes no assessment of the money’s larger implications, only how much of it there is.

I’d make a note to find a better way to say whatever I’d just been saying in the future and shift topics to regain their attention.

Execution is a critical gap between idea and reality, but it’s not the only one. Another is belief. For ideas to matter, people have to believe in them. There’s only so much an idea can do on its own. Ideas need supporters, carriers, and executors to become real.

That a good idea, well-crafted and pursued with passion, doesn’t need a gatekeeper’s stamp of approval to succeed.

When society undergoes major change, people discover that the world isn’t as solid as they thought.

Market capitalism is not a religion. Market capitalism is a tool, like a staple gun or a toaster. You’d have to be a fool to worship it. Our system was created by human beings for the benefit of human beings. We do not exist to serve markets. Just the opposite. Any economic system that weakens and destroys families is not worth having. A system lik

I wanted to break free of the universe where an idea had to justify its existence based on how much money it would make somebody else. How limiting!

We didn’t want to be everything to everybody. The goal was to make something that mattered, and to do it for the long haul. We said publicly that we’d never sell the company or take it public. We would do what was best for Kickstarter’s mission, not use it to do what was best for us.