#participatoryeconomy — Public Fediverse posts

Mitchell Szczepanczyk, an experienced political activist and co-founded of the Chicago Area Participatory Economics Society, writes about how media might function in a participatory economy.

In this model, media production would be collective and planned by worker and consumer councils, without profit motives. Media workers would be paid based on effort, ensuring more equitable and diverse media production.

#Parecon #ParticipatoryEconomy #activism
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/media-in-a-participatory-economy/

A research article presents simulations of the democratically planned economies with encouraging results:

“…we explore one of these democratic planning models–#RobinHahnel and #MichaelAlbert’s model of a #ParticipatoryEconomy, focusing in particular on its allocation mechanism–a non-market, non-command-planning procedure known as participatory planning.”

After an overview of #parecon, the article offers experts the full #simulation model and future prospects.

https://www.anserpress.org/journal/jie/1/3/15

I think the reason I love solarpunk so much is twofold:

1. Solarpunk recognizes that our environment plays a huge role in our we survive. Adapting to our environment and working with nature not only protects us but also keeps the environment thriving for future generations. Technology is only used to assist people and the environment - not for profit.

2. Solarpunk definitely has a degrowth sort of approach to the economy. How society is rebuilt in a solarpunk world tends toward anarchist communes, participatory economies, library economies, and anti-capitalist modes of existence. Solarpunk is perfect for what Arturo Escobar calls the Pluriverse (taken from the Zapatistas of Chiapas description of a better world).

These ideas heavily influence how I build Elivera, my world-building project (that is the setting for majority of my stories).

I wrote a manifesto of my Solarpunk ideas here: https://cohost.org/TheBirdWrites/post/859437-my-solarpunk-ethos

What are your thoughts on solarpunk, fellow Mastodonians?

#Solarpunk #RandomThoughts #Degrowth #Anarchism #ParticipatoryEconomy #Pluriverse #LibraryEconomy