- Mar 2025
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for - book - grassroots economics - Will Ruddick
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for - adjacency - commons - funding. - how to communities can become self-sustaining - Will Ruddick - community economics - adjacency - funding the commons - Will Ruddick - Michel Bauwens - cosmolocal Summary - Will Ruddick articulates a way to use money more wisely that follows the " teach a man to fish" cliche in order to build self-sustaining communities - To mobilize a global transition requires careful analysis at multiple scales - employing cosmolocal strategy would accelerate and make Ruddick's proposal more resilient
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Imagine taking those $5 million and using it to seed a commons-based system—a commitment pool. Here’s how it could work:
for - strategy - economical self-sustaining commons-based community - Will Ruddick
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- Nov 2024
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for - article - substack - altruism - indigenous - Will Ruddick - adjacency - indigenous altruism mythology - Deep Humanity - individual / collective gestalt - source - Donna Nelham Summary - A brief but insightful article that clarifies the roots of common misunderstanding of - altruism practices in indigenous cultures. - As often the case, an oversimplification is the root of the misunderstanding - The oversimplification posits that such altruism is completely selfless, - but this contradicts common sense as well as the foundations of biology and evolution - From a Deep Humanity perspective, it again highlights the importance of the idea of the intertwingled individual / collective gestalt
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what is often labeled as altruism is more accurately described as mutual support and interdependence.
for - altruism - misinterpretation - Will Ruddick
In other words - We tend to forget the most fundamental condition for altruism - that the individual needs to first exist - and therefore reserve some inputs for its own self care - before it can extend help to others
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