Dilek Sayedahmed
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Dilek Sayedahmed
@dileksayedahmed.bsky.social
Market Design Economist gone rogue | Sr. Economic Policy Advisor at WAGE & EIC ✨ One of those academic types who prefers books over people✌🏾 Elaine Benes of economics 🙋🏽‍♀️

Sadly, I'm ashamed to say, I'm here, but for now: https://dileksay2.substack.com
Chères personnes au Canada, mon cœur est avec vous. Une vigile est prévue demain à l’Ambassade du Canada en France—n’hésitez pas à passer quand vous le souhaitez. Tout le monde est le bienvenu. J’y serai.

Le drapeau est en berne. Nous présentons nos plus sincères condoléances à toutes et à tous.
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
I appreciate you so much, coach! 🥹🙏🏾😘
February 10, 2026 at 7:31 PM
But when we rely on the state alone, we find ourselves sorted into silos of provisioning, and highly vulnerable to "cuts" - restrictions on our access to the resources we might otherwise share more equitably. Rich social lives are replaced with cold, transactional relations.
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM
The role of the state you ask? Ouais bien sûr, we need the state to provide healthcare, education and economic safety net, to distribute between communities, to prevent private interests becoming too powerful, to defend us from threats (functions currently performed to sub par/non existent🥴).
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM
play areas, community broadband and energy cooperatives, open-source software, or the shared land for growing fruit and vegetables.
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM
In many societies, the commons were once the dominant economic node, before they were captured by capitalist predation, concentrated into the hand of a few, then slides and bundled for sale to others.

Today they persist in many forms: community forests or fishing grounds, community parks and
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM
The commons are controlled by communities, which devise and implement the rules that govern them. They are an insurgency of social power, in which we come together as equals to confront our shared predicaments.
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 AM