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@ Brisling
2025-03-06 10:04:52
One of the ways social ecology helps us build a better economy (if you think of economy as the field concerned with thr logistics of meeting people's needs, as everyone should) is the understanding that every form of value extraction has a social and ecological cost that needs to be offset.
For example, you could build an alternative to AirBnB (because people will always be looking for places to sleep) where every space is linked to a local social project that gives power to the people building a more resilient neighbourhood, be it a soup kitchen, a community garden or a queer youth centre, with a sliding scale based on e.g. how vulnerable that neighbourhood is determining how much of the rent gets redistributed to the community to help offset the "AirBnBification" effect or whatever you want to call it.
#socialecology