Drawings from the _Looking Forward_ ParEcon book have been in my mind for decades, not just the quotes and ideas...

"... all owe elements of their personalities to the jobs they do."
https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/www/books/lf1_1.htm

https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/www/books/lf2_1.htm

#LookingForward by #MichaelAlbert and #RobinHahnel

> So you see, I claim that work in a duly ordered community should be made attractive by the consciousness of usefulness, by its being carried on with intelligent interest, by variety, and by its being exercised amidst pleasurable surroundings.

- #WilliamMorris quoted in
#LookingForward by #MichaelAlbert and #RobinHahnel one of their #PareconBooks for thinking about a vision of a decent society. #Work #DecentWork

There are a good number of great quotes in _Looking Forward_.:

> There are really not many jobs that actually require a penis or a vagina, and all other occupations should be open to everyone.

- #GloriaSteinem

quoted in #LookingForward by #MichaelAlbert and #RobinHahnel one of their #PareconBooks

@bsmall2@nerdica.net

> ... to judge both traditional and new economic institutions, we will ask whether they subvert or promote:
1. Efficiency ..
2. Equity ..
3. Self-management ..
4. Solidarity ..
5. Variety (defined as a diversity of outcomes).
We will also ask if economic institutions impose any biases on individual choice that impede these five aims by charging people other than the true social opportunity costs for activities.
https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/books/1.htm
#PolPar #ParEcon #ParEconBooks #MichaelAlbert #RobinHahnel

For a few weeks, posts about bitcoin (cryptocurrencies?) and Sri Lanka have been making me think of Robin Hahnel's _Panic Rules_. The book is lying around somewhere, a quick search didn't turn up anything that looks good, but this screenshot of a 1998 article I didn't read, sums up the rules.
1. Don't Panic
2. Panic First!
How can people pay attention to anything worthwhile when following these rules for money?
https://classic.esquire.com/article/1998/10/1/rule-1-dont-panic-rule-2-panic-first
#RobinHahnel #PanicRules

> The darker side of market incentives has been neglected and underestimated. Two modern exceptions are Ralph d’Arge and E.K. Hunt, who coined the less famous but equally appropriate concept, “invisible foot” to describe the socially counter-productive behavior of foisting costs onto others that markets also promote.
https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/zbooks/htdocs/books/pareconv/Chapter3.htm
#EKHunt #InvisibleFoot #Market #Economics #ParEcon #ParticipatoryEconomics of #MichaelAlbert and #RobinHahnel

AI is Progress,
Progess is A LIe.

See #DavidNoble #ProgressWithoutPeople

There is always someone making decisions and choices somewhere, the magic words like progress, 'invisible hand' ( #EKHunt is more accurate with 'inivisibl foot', See #MichaelAlbert and #RobinHahnel's #QuietRevolutioninWelfareEconomics ), 'free markets' just hide the responsibility.