The Organization Is the Grant Proposal
Article prepared by RiverStephens.org and RiverGPT I recently met with two city officials whose work is to manage housing precarity and homelessness in both the city and…
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The Cultivation of Discernment
There’s a Zen saying: if I point out the moon to you, be careful not to mistake my finger for the moon. I think people get so…
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At This Point, Prepping Means Community Building
Do you remember a few years ago when being a prepper was all the rage? It was a cool thing to do because, clearly, the world was…
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The Diary of Anne …
January 23 They marked my identification papers today. The clerk said it was an administrative matter. Nothing to worry about. The mark doesn’t change who I am.…
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Creditism Wasn’t the Mistake. Centralizing Credit Was.
I recently came across economist Richard Duncan‘s idea of “Creditism.” His basic argument is that what we continue to call capitalism really isn’t capitalism anymore. Traditional capitalism…
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Relational Wealth; How Wealthy Are You?
Economists have a bizarrely unrealistic little character called homo economicus. He has all the necessary information, carefully weighs every possible choice, and then makes the decision that…
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The Road to Perdition
What happens when the decadence that has, for so long, lingered beneath the surface of a culture finally comes fully into view? Things once kept in the…
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Are You Compassionate?
“Most people trust that the compassion they feel for others will be acted upon by someone else, while they sit at home congratulating themselves for having felt…
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The Iceberg Killed No One
Everyone knows the story of the Titanic. Big ship hits an iceberg, sinks, lots of people die. And the culprit, the focus of the story, is usually……
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Social Market Economy integrated with a Negative Income Tax (NIT)
Let’s let RiverGPT explain it (curated by me): A Social Market Economy integrated with a Negative Income Tax (NIT) combines the organic efficiency of a free market…