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This Could Be Our Future

A Manifesto for a More Generous World

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This Could Be Our Future

By: Yancey Strickler
Narrated by: Yancy Strickler
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Break free from a wealth-obsessed world.

Western society is trapped by three assumptions:

  1. The point of life is to maximise your self-interest and wealth
  2. We're individuals trapped in an adversarial world
  3. That this path is inevitable

These ideas separate us, keep us powerless and limit our imagination for the future. We see them as the truth, but they are just a point of view that previous generations accepted as inevitable. It's time we replace them with something new.

In this bold, powerful book, Yancey Strickler - cofounder of Kickstarter - lays out an inspiring vision for a new world we have the power to create and how we can change course. While the pursuit of wealth has produced innovation and prosperity, it's also produced dire consequences: environmental collapse, corruption, exploitation and unhappiness around the world. We don't have to get rid of money entirely, though: we can co-opt the tools we have used toward better measurement of what matters, technology and specificity of goals - and refocus them to build a more generous, fair and future-prepared society. By recalibrating our definition of value, a world of scarcity can blossom into a world of abundance.

Hopeful but firmly grounded, full of concrete examples and bursting with creativity, This Could Be Our Future brilliantly dissects the world we live in and shows us a road map to the world we are capable of making.

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This is one of the rare books that made me feel less gloomy about the world, which seems to be sliding into an abyss that horrifies me.

Yes, read this book, listen to it. If enough people do, there might actually be hope!

An uplifting book

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Good thought provoking story. Great principles. Big ideas and excellent summary of some economic history.

Where Will You Be In 30 Years?

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