Episode 26: This could be our future
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About Yancey Strickler: Yancey is the co-founder of Kickstarter and author of ’This could be our future’. Yancey is currently on a mission to end financial maximization as the dominant force, and as the dominant value that guides our decisions and actions by 2050. In this interview, we discuss the expansion of our current set of values so that we start making decisions for long term sustainability, for reasons of community needs, for reasons of fairness. Yancey strongly believes that we have the ability to affect the largest possible things, that the deepest possible assumptions of society are changeable by us. Jump right in: 1:21 What are the values that you discuss in your upcoming book that we should build our society on? 9:55 Away from financial maximization as the dominant value 14:28 A global philosophy applied in local ways 20:18 Is it worth pursuing progress for the sake of progress? 27:32 What do you think is the future of work? 31:55 Kickstarter and crowdfunding: a look into the future 37:56 Investors ask good questions 44:20 What is your destination? The impact you would like to create? References: https://www.ystrickler.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/ https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1116493/this-could-be-our-future/9780753552834.html Music Credits: KONSTENTYN- 早くお金を返せ (2019)
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