User:JoeEdelman/21st Century Economics and Ecology

A future that works for 12B ppl

reputation & sharing & experience economies - high-density low-stuff living
mission-related investments & other use-regimes
reputation/algorithm-based easements & trusts
point of sale vs point of experience vs point of long-term benefit evaluation (& google ads; & internet incentivization)
from wallet and keys (pairwise) notions of use to (reputation / auction / larger assessment) social smartphone negotiated use
goods become services; services become social & reputation-based rather than market exchanged; (later) land, minerals, and infra become group-managed

social & rep currencies leverage transaction cost efficiencies (see Benkler, "Sharing Nicely")
also, human motivation efficiencies (see Foursquare, Couchsurfing, McGonigal)
also, market commoditization interferes with addressing people's true desires (DeBord)

capitalism is NOT dominant. 4 markets (reputation, favor-exchange, caring, and cash) change their relative dominance over time as technology and living conditions change. See economist Nancy Folbre
billionaires and CEOs and VCs are NOT evil. see my investors (Kickstarter, Google Earth, ...), see Fred Wilson (#hackedu, Khan Academy, MeetUp), see Danon Yogurt (CEO issued a new kind of green stock and moved 1MM stockholders over to new stock so he could go eco)
sharing/algo-collective approaches DON'T have to be vulnerable to free-riders and safety concerns (see CouchSurfing)
low-tech back to the land and transition town approaches are NOT sustainable (see Steffen's peice: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/009499.html)

Lawyers (e.g., http://sf.streetsblog.org/2010/06/04/california-assembly-passes-personal-car-sharing-insurance-bill/, CLTs, etc)
Internet entrepreneurs & social designers (e.g., Zipcar, NeighborGoods)
Sharing economy lifestyle marketers & collab. community builders (e.g. GOOD Magizine, Rick Warren) (is there one in China?) (how to reach the ranch states?)
Urban planners
Experience designers of all kinds
Group-asset managers (land trusts, foundation grant funders, etc)