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Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country

One such protection would be a Social Accountability Act stipulating that every corporation be graded according to an index of social worthiness, to be compiled by panels of randomly selected citizens, the equivalent of juries, chosen from a diverse pool of stakeholders: the company’s customers, members of the communities it affects, and so on. If ... See more

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Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium

The Unwinding

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They’ve been an era of growth driven by the global poor subsidizing the rich to fuel the overconsumption of an array of more and more ephemeral goods and services dependent on steeply diminishing returns economics, where the natural world, communities, and society are marginalized.

Umair Haque • The New Capitalist Manifesto: Building a Disruptively Better Business

We’ve all benefited from the last generation of tech operators and investors making their content accessible. The people that should be reading Divinations are those that have the potential to build great companies, but may not afford a subscription, not the VCs.

Sari Azout • Check your Pulse #45

A 3 percent increase in the standard of living of the U.S. population costs twenty-five times as much as a similar increase in the living standard of India, despite the greater size and more rapid growth of the Indian population. Significant benefits for the poor demand a reduction of the resources used by the rich, while significant benefits for t

Ivan Illich • Tools for Conviviality

Amartya Sen – work for which he won a Nobel-Memorial prize. The focus of development, Sen argues, should be on ‘advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live’.20 Instead of prioritising metrics like GDP, the aim should be to enlarge people’s capabilities – such as to be healthy, empowered a