Ferananda Ibarra
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@fer_ananda
Human-ing during the transition in between worlds. Creating harmonious social systems through economics and envisioning our place in the web of life
6) Let’s get real: AI’s already disrupting jobs. Factories, offices, even creative work—nothing’s safe. Pope Leo’s asking: what happens when millions lose their livelihoods? He’s not just preaching; he’s demanding we protect workers now.
1) what?! That’s 1x speed!
We’re living in a traffic jam. Not on the roads—but in our economies. Communities are full of people with skills, goods, time, and energy. But they sit idle, not for lack of productivity, but because they’re waiting… for money. That wait becomes a kind of poverty. A poverty of our ability to share. Even when philanthropy arrives—flooding in like rain—it often creates more dependency, not flow. We trade our goods for donor cash, hit our exchange limits, and then… wait again. Gridlock, round two. There is another way. In ecosystems, excess becomes compost. In communities, commitments can do the same. In places like coastal Kenya, rotating labor associations like Mweria let people trade services, labor, and trust—without money. The magic calabash stays alive because it's fed with oaths, not dollars. When cash does come in, it should feed the roots—not drown them. I recommend keeping external cash below half the value of internal commitments. Let the community's own economy breathe. So to donors and do-gooders: ask yourself, are you composting or clogging? Let’s design for flow, not dependency. Let’s unlock the gridlock from the inside out.
If our economic system were an album, it would sound helluva distorted asomo.co/p/remastering-…
