I'm very interested in #DoughnutEconomics ! Are you curious and want to learn about it?
Listen to the podcast "Upstream: Doughnut Economics with Kate Raworth"!

One important point is that the Doughnut Economics is #growth agnostic - it doesn't say that we need to stop or even reduce growth - simply because we can't foresee the growth. The most important thing is that we need to stay within the doughnut.

#regenerative #distributive
https://sites.libsyn.com/435210/kate-raworth-doughnut-economics-in-conversation

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@thomasfuchs I agree with you 100%. That is one of the main reasons I use @Waterfox and @librewolf (sometimes @Vivaldi) over Mozilla.

Most Linux distros have Firefox browser set as default. In my case, I deleted Firefox from my Linux Mint.

Oh, and as well as everyone else says - they should not just get rid of Google as search engine, but as well they should get rid of Google from about:config page.

If you search through about:config , you will find indeed lots of Google connections...wish they removed them all.

#firefox #vivaldi #vivaldibrowser #firefoxbrowser #waterfox #waterfoxbrowser #browserworks #linux #linuxmint #mint #mozilla #ai #phone #crypto #vr #browser #browsers #mozillafirefox #mozillabrowser #librewolf #librwolfbrowser #privacy #distro #distros #linuxdistro #linuxdistros #distributive #distributions #linuxdistribution #linuxdistributive #privacybrowser #privacyfocused #privacyfocusedbrowser #privacyfriendly #privacyisahumanright #google #googlesearch

I had cause to talk about the topic of my long-abandoned Thesis.

It was supposed to be about Distributive/Collective distinctions in language.

These distinctions exist in many forms across the languages of the world, many as explicitly signalled, with inflection or endings or the like.

Semantically they exist for all languages, because they exist for all human experience, just not all languages point them out in handy, regular ways.

They can apply to verbs or to nouns (semantically).

Taking a tug-of-war as an example for verbal distributive/collective, if the teams are pulling collectively, they are all pulling on the same rope.

If they were pulling distributively, they would each have one rope, possibly all connected in the center.

For nouns, often distributive meanings infer distinctness, individuality. For example, one could talk about the Moai of Easter Island with a distributive, signifying that the Moai are "here and there".

A collection of table silvers, on the other hand, neatly packed into a carrying case, would be more likely described with a collective.

One might also, perhaps paradoxically, use a collective to describe a set of different things. Like the set of cutlery at a fancy dinner, with the different kinds of forks and knives and spoons, laid out around the plate.

Some of these are also known in English, Danish, etc. So-called Collective Nouns are all nouns that imply a plurality with a singular noun.

But this presupposed plurality is in common to both collectives and distributives.

What I was aiming to do, was to figure out if there might be some "collective terms" that might contain traces of distributives instead of purely collective.

Alas, it was way too broad, and would have required a sort of semantic calculus that does not exist, so eh.

#thesis #abandonedplaces #plural #distributive #collective

The 21st century goal is to 🔸meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet 🔸

How can humanity get there?

Not with last century's economic thinking.

#Doughnut #Economics proposes an economic mindset that's fit for our times.

It's not a set of policies and institutions, but rather a way of thinking to bring about the regenerative and distributive dynamics that this century calls for.

Drawing on insights from diverse schools of economic thought
- including ecological, feminist, institutional, behavioural and complexity economics
- it sets out seven ways to think like a 21st century economist in order to transform economies, local to global.

The starting point of Doughnut Economics is to 🔹change the goal from endless GDP growth to thriving in the Doughnut🔹.

At the same time, see the big picture by recognising that 🔹the economy is embedded within, and dependent upon, society and the living world.🔹

Doughnut Economics recognises that human behaviour can be nurtured to be #cooperative and #caring, just as it can be competitive and individualistic.

It also recognises that economies, societies, and the rest of the living world, are complex, interdependent systems that are best understood through the lens of #systems #thinking.

And it calls for turning today's degenerative economies into #regenerative ones, and divisive economies into far more #distributive ones.

Lastly, Doughnut Economics recognises that growth may be a healthy phase of life, but nothing grows forever:
things that succeed do so by growing until it is time to 🔹grow up and thrive🔹 instead.

https://doughnuteconomics.org/tools/2

“Real #wealth consists in things of #utility and #beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in. But if man is doomed to wind cotton around a spool, or dig coal, or build roads for thirty years of his life, there can be no talk of wealth. What he gives to the world is only gray and hideous things, reflecting a dull and hideous existence, - too weak to live, too cowardly to die. Strange to say, there are people who extol this deadening method of #centralized #production as the proudest achievement of our age. They fail utterly to realize that if we are to continue in #machine subserviency, our #slavery is more complete than was our #bondage to the #King. They do not want to know that #centralization is not only the death-knell of #liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

#Anarchism cannot but repudiate such a method of production: its goal is the freest possible expression of all the latent powers of the #individual. Oscar Wilde defines a perfect #personality as “one who develops under perfect conditions, who is not wounded, maimed, or in danger.” A perfect personality, then, is only possible in a state of #society where man is #free to choose the mode of #work, the conditions of work, and the #freedom to work. One to whom the making of a table, the building of a house, or the tilling of the soil, is what the painting is to the artist and the discovery to the scientist, - the result of #inspiration, of intense longing, and deep interest in work as a creative force. That being the ideal of Anarchism, its economic arrangements must consist of #voluntary #productive and #distributive #associations, gradually developing into free #communism, as the best means of producing with the least waste of human energy. Anarchism, however, also recognizes the right of the individual, or numbers of individuals, to arrange at all times for other forms of work, in harmony with their tastes and desires.”

• Emma #Goldman - Anarchism: what it really stands for (http://www.panarchy.org/goldman/anarchism.1910.html)

#DIF: 21st century economics ~ A #newparadigm for #economics and #business is emerging. One that rejects the neo-classical economics that is taught in schools and enacted by our politicians. This playlist rounds up the thinkers and innovators who presented a new vision for a #distributive and #regenerative economy that works for people, business and the #environment.

https://www.thinkdif.co/playlists/21st-century-economics