August 20, 2026
Social Market Economy integrated with a Negative Income Tax (NIT)
August 15, 2026
Needs Cannot Be Reduced to Mere Categories: Why Reductionist Systems Fail
August 15, 2026
The Next Wave of Cancel Culture
August 12, 2026
Buridan’s Ass: Precarity is So Much More Than Just Scarcity
August 6, 2026
KommunityKoin as an Adaptive Cohousing System: Rebuilding Community Within the Neighborhoods People Already Call Home
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)
August 20, 2026
Social Market Economy integrated with a Negative Income Tax (NIT)
August 15, 2026
Needs Cannot Be Reduced to Mere Categories: Why Reductionist Systems Fail
August 15, 2026
The Next Wave of Cancel Culture
August 12, 2026
Buridan’s Ass: Precarity is So Much More Than Just Scarcity
August 6, 2026
KommunityKoin as an Adaptive Cohousing System: Rebuilding Community Within the Neighborhoods People Already Call Home
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)
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…
The last few weeks in our community resource center, we’ve run up against the stark reality of our days. Now, for this to make sense, you have…
One of the most prophetic images in Fahrenheit 451 isn’t the book burning, though that’s at the top of the list; It’s the seashell ear thimbles. Bradbury…