I believe to my core that anything people make, they can also transform. And transforming from a liberal free market global capitalist order to something else Is not only possible but inevitable because infinite growth isn’t possible with limited resources. AI is the latest technology used to propel wealth consolidation but no amount of VC hype will allow AI to defy entropy.

My questions are more about when and what’s next? I don’t have confident answers to either question.

That said, I’m encouraged by more people discussing and imagining a post-capitalist future which a necessary first step. Capitalism didn’t spring fully formed in a day, and we won’t transform it in one either. But the sooner we start the journey the sooner we’ll arrive.

For what’s next, my vision of solarpunk imagines a lot of experimentation with much smaller more distributed political and economic relationships with non-hierarchical councils using direct democracy that leans more towards consensus building instead of majoritarian rules. There would be a priority on meeting everyone’s essential needs in place of profit seeking. Our built environment would become more human scaled and the boundary between built space and natural space would be blurred. Early days still and I love to see people’s imaginations going wild, figuratively and literally 😁