and it's possible the model has bigger issues

So if you think there is a better economic model out there, or have ideas to improve or stress test the Network Economies model, I'd love to hear it (can do it in the replies or send me a DM)

corporate race to the bottom, wealth concentration, sensemaking crisis, etc.) and also the best shot at escaping the Economic Vortex we're all being sucked into and putting us on a path to mass prosperity

Obviously I haven't worked out every last possible edge case and failure mode,

identify back then. The good news is that it can be solved. We now have both the technological tools and the economic framework needed to move toward prosperity instead of collapse. Here’s that framework:
open.substack.com/pub/abundanc...

Almost two decades later, I’m seeing that most of the crises we face today — from the breakdown of trust in media and institutions, to social polarization, economic stagnation, market failures in public goods, and resource conflicts — are all connected to the same underlying problem I was trying to

joblessness or economic collapse, but two new challenges had emerged:
1) AI is accelerating the timeline I had once worried about.
2) Our information ecology has deteriorated so much that even a great solution would struggle to break through the noise.

Still, we have to play the hand we’re dealt.

Almost 15 years later, I listened to a podcast with @vitalik.eth and realized that Ethereum — or rather, “programmable money” — could be used instead of the tech solution I had originally imagined

What struck me then was that not only had no one offered a serious solution to prevent mass

was that what I came up with required a technological component that, at the time, I estimated would take about 80 years to develop.

So I decided to focus on a career in architecture instead, hoping that sooner or later someone would figure out a way to avert an economic collapse.

threatening to collapse our economy, but technological progress itself — the ability to mass-produce almost everything people need and want, with little to no human labor. It just didn’t make sense.

So I studied economics in college and did come up with a possible solution. The problem

money itself might lose value once the economy collapses?

I started thinking about whether I could actually understand what’s wrong with our system — and maybe come up with a way to fix it

An alien looking at our situation would probably think we’ve lost our minds. It’s not some catastrophic event

And if not, well, you can always take the blue pill (or unfollow).

See you on the other side, and Happy New Year!

But while all of this is possible, none of it will happen if people don’t know about it and build it.

And that is the purpose of this adventure.

So if you’d like to join me on an adventure to create a better economic reality, DM me or follow the link below (abundance.id).

A reality where we no longer have to choose between self‑fulfillment and livelihood; where creating things in abundance for all is profitable; and where the race is to make people’s lives better — for us and our children.

scarce goods currently have an exchange value in the market).

So it forces us to choose between our self‑fulfillment — creating things that genuinely benefit others — and our livelihood.

We now have the technology and the ability to create a better economic reality.

We are escaping an economic reality that is increasingly threatening us with joblessness, and our children with lower living standards.

And while the system can create abundance for all, it can’t do so profitably (since only scarce or artificially..

A better alternative is to build an economic paradigm where creating abundant things has value, so that you can create art and also pay rent (that's what Network Economies do)

focus on building a paradigm where we no longer have to choose between the two