For a couple of centuries, progress has been an industrial undertaking. During this time, smokestacks and iron buildings were built to embellish many skylines. Today, many of these rusty ruins remain as relics of what once happened. And similar “progressive” plans are still being built to make similar results happen somewhere else (in the spirit… Continue reading The Progression from Progress through Progressive towards Progressivism
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Proprietary Contexts vs. Free Market Contexts
This is a topic which I have yet to see adequately addressed, at least to some degree (perhaps) simply because we cannot address it … insofar as there is no appropriate language for it, there is no appropriate vocabulary. Quite a few years ago, I wrote (vaguely) about this on my personal blog (see “Auctions… Continue reading Proprietary Contexts vs. Free Market Contexts
Supply, Demand, Natural Language & Free Markets — Some Preliminary Thoughts & Ideas
Many if not most — or even all? — (educated) people have probably heard of supply and demand before — and perhaps also that they are the basic building blocks of free markets. Likewise, many may be familiar with the expression “supply creates its own demand” (which is a sort of shorthand for views expressed… Continue reading Supply, Demand, Natural Language & Free Markets — Some Preliminary Thoughts & Ideas
Social Business Regulation: Introduction & Socio BIZ Rule #1
Over the weekend, I spent an entire day working on what I will present today as Socio BIZ Rule #1 for Social Business — but first let me backtrack a little bit about how I got to this place. If you have been following along with chapters 1-20, then you are already quite up to… Continue reading Social Business Regulation: Introduction & Socio BIZ Rule #1
What is the Primary Goal of Social Business?
I want to pick up where we left the discussion at the conclusion of the last chapter … in the next chapter. Here and now I would like to attempt a first approximation of the primary goal of “social business”. Let me point out that I do not “own” this phrase — except and insofar… Continue reading What is the Primary Goal of Social Business?
Eradicating Estates, Building Pillars in their Place
Their is a vision haunting my mind: That vision is a phenomenon – an abstraction – which exists between people. For me, this phenomenon seems completely obvious. It is not a new phenomenon, yet it has hardly been understood very well. I dream of its existence day and night, and it appears so significant to… Continue reading Eradicating Estates, Building Pillars in their Place
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