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Matt Gardner's avatar

Gene, I think that you will really enjoy my latest story, as it has a very similar theme to your work.

https://plotweaver.substack.com/p/at-municipal-value-chapter-4-the?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Gene Bellinger's avatar

Matt, maybe you could give me a demo as I don't have time to absorb it all on my own... Gene's Calendar: https://calendly.com/systemswiki

Matt Gardner's avatar

Hi Gene, I have created a new Post explaining the game/system we have built that we use to write our short stories.

There is even a video at the end.

https://plotweaver.substack.com/p/beyond-the-story-how-to-become-a?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Gene Bellinger's avatar

I watched the video and now have an idea of what you're doing. Looking forward ot the call tomorrow.

Ken Shepard's avatar

Yes, Ken Wilbur's nested natural hierarchies. We live in late stage exploitive capitalism destroying the planetary ecology that sustains us. And the core problem seems to be the extreme gap in income. There are enough billionaires who organize to continue the extraction that they overwhelm the efforts of some of more charitable billionaires. It seems to take a famine, plague or war or some other catastrophe for a society to reorganize as Japan, Germany, Scandanavia and much of north Europe has to distribute wealth more evenly for a much higher quality of life - working toward sustaining life and the planet. Let's look ever more closely at the flow of money.

Gene Bellinger's avatar

How do we choose to rank them, the Fortune list of the richest people? Don't we tend to get what we measure? We are all part of the problem.

Ken Shepard's avatar

List of rich people - nouns. Let's look at those who contribute to political objectives and the flow or relationship to our so-called failing democracy (the best government that money can buy). I prefer this list of key political contributors, with notes on their key issues and the key legislators they have funded or bought, depending on your preference.