Cooperatives

At the latest ETHDenver Event, Vitalik Buterin emphasized that the next stage in the development of the crypto economy is to improve the user experience (UX) so that we can use crypto for everyday transactions. This led me to ask myself: why don’t I use crypto for everyday transactions? The…

Regulatory-approved structures (Suck It SEC!) Preface The Soul Train has made it into town and is blasting Jungle Boogie; you know what that means: The need to 🎶 get DAOn, get DAOn 🎶 with some superfly dance moves 🕺💃. Today we’ll be returning to our DAO series to look at an…

Pete Cohen, development partner at FORWARD — The RMIT Centre for Future Skills and Workforce Transformation — writing with director Peter Thomas and development partners Sally McNamara, Inder Singh, Kate Spencer, Courtney Guilliatt, Daniel Bluzer-Fry, Helen Babb-Delia and Soolin Barclay on how co-operatives, DAOs and collective organisational models can…

This essay is a part of a series. Read the overview “Imagining Equity: Explorations into the Future of Enterprise” here. Transforming the Gig Economy: How Unionized Cooperatives Can Create Wealth for All Workers By Ra Criscitiello, Deputy Director of Research at SEIU UHW, IFTF Equitable Enterprise Initiative Advisor In the late 19th century, the Knights of Labor (KOL), a labor federation founded by…

It’s a truth universally well-known that being an entrepreneur is not an easy job. And when your goal is not just to make money but to make an impact - on people and the planet - that task is even harder. Scotland is home to a growing movement towards business…

Direct (personal) and indirect (via social media) societal exposure to dystopian experiences, albeit unequal, makes the task of imagining a utopia a fairly simple one. To me, a utopia is as simple as human and environmental protection from exploitation and injustice. More philosophically, however, humans would not even be considered…

Why We Think It’s Worth It To Go Against The Grain — I’m sure you’ve heard the saying “It takes money to make money” right? It takes money to make just about anything these days, and that definitely includes the systems and structures that might eventually make money obsolete. We all live in a capitalist system (unfortunately), and as much as we…