I just read about Free Money Day, held on September 15th, organized by the Post Growth Institute.
They sound well meaning but operationally naive.
However, it might be noticeable if the 1% endorse it in spades! :)
Seriously though, why should any evolving species EVER endorse a "post growth" initiative. What is that? Hibernation? An Ice Age? Death?
What if prokaryotes had endorsed that concept 3.5 billion years ago? Or if any idiots had, at any time throughout the intervening history, right up to the formal definition of Luddites?
Answer: they would have INSTANTLY been run over by some other evolving "truck," without ever even getting the license plate!
I guess the proper definition of "post growth" = lunch.
I'm going to suggest an Increase Output Day instead, where people just get together to do insanely great things, and challenge themselves to AUTOMATICALLY denominate - with scalable agility - all the unpredictable transaction chains incidental to the options they explore.
The point will be to focus on our REAL OPTIONS, while making all of accounting a simple automatic stabilizer. Maybe a Fed-app on Android phones? Hell! The app could even spout a stream of inscrutable nonsense - just to warn anyone from ever again failing to see the reality for the coincidental accounting.
ps: Where's Will Rogers when we need him more than ever? We need a robotic density detector, constantly flailing it's arms & screaming "Danger, Will Rogers!" "Danger, Will Rogers!" every time the level our discussion in the most distributed levels of our electorate becomes lower than we could hope to survive. Can we extract the tiny parts of Dick Stockton's brain that are actually useful, now that it's in it's post-growth phase, graft it into such robots, and use them to maintain distributed awareness? Sounds like a great student challenge.
ps: Where's Will Rogers when we need him more than ever? We need a robotic density detector, constantly flailing it's arms & screaming "Danger, Will Rogers!" "Danger, Will Rogers!" every time the level our discussion in the most distributed levels of our electorate becomes lower than we could hope to survive. Can we extract the tiny parts of Dick Stockton's brain that are actually useful, now that it's in it's post-growth phase, graft it into such robots, and use them to maintain distributed awareness? Sounds like a great student challenge.
