August 5, 2026
When the System Fails, People Build Their Own: Understanding the Rise of Micro-Economies
August 2, 2026
The Subscription Life: When Ownership Became a Rental Agreement
July 31, 2026
What the Village Movement Can Teach the Time Banking Movement (And Vice Versa)
July 24, 2026
We Can’t Build Communities: You’ll See Why.
July 18, 2026
Context Collapse: Why We’re Losing the Story Behind the Story
July 17, 2026
Negative Income Tax and Social Infrastructure: Why Precarity Needs Both
July 16, 2026
An Academic Overview of the Bottom-up Social Infrastructure Framework
July 13, 2026
Bottom-Up Social Infrastructure
August 5, 2026
When the System Fails, People Build Their Own: Understanding the Rise of Micro-Economies
August 2, 2026
The Subscription Life: When Ownership Became a Rental Agreement
July 31, 2026
What the Village Movement Can Teach the Time Banking Movement (And Vice Versa)
July 24, 2026
We Can’t Build Communities: You’ll See Why.
July 18, 2026
Context Collapse: Why We’re Losing the Story Behind the Story
July 17, 2026
Negative Income Tax and Social Infrastructure: Why Precarity Needs Both
July 16, 2026
An Academic Overview of the Bottom-up Social Infrastructure Framework
July 13, 2026
Bottom-Up Social Infrastructure
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Introduction Many people might assume that a “micro-economy” is just microeconomics with a hyphen. It’s a reasonable guess, but it’s wrong. Microeconomics is a field of study.…
It certainly appears that the subscription economy, which we had all been sucked into kicking and screaming (initially), is now actively (d)evolving into the subscription life. This…
Over the past two decades, the Village Movement has demonstrated something that many community movements struggle to achieve: consistent participation. Across the United States, hundreds of Village…
It’s taken a long time but I’m beginning to think that communities aren’t built. Organizations are built. But communities.. they emerge. That may seem like a small…
One of the greatest challenges of our time isn’t misinformation, per se. It’s missing information. More specifically, it’s missing context. Context collapse is what happens when information…
A negative income tax alone can’t solve precarity, because precarity is multidimensional. People can have identical incomes and radically different levels of security depending on whether they…
I asked RiverGPT to explain my framework to a PhD economist. Here’s the response: If I were speaking to a PhD economist, I would present River’s work…
Definition: Bottom-Up Social Infrastructure is the network of relationships, trust, participation, and shared intention that enables communities to solve problems together without relying exclusively on top-down institutions.…
I’ve written before that money isn’t value. Money is a claim on value. The two are related, but they’re not the same thing. We often confuse the…
This article (an important read) argues that precarity is much more than unstable employment. It’s a way of understanding how insecurity is produced, experienced, and distributed throughout…