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When we’re talking about Capitalism++, we’re talking about Economic Measures and Policies derived from Principles of Resilience. The Resilient Futures network does a handsome job of describing this kind of framework:
Resilient Futures is a way of thinking, a framework, a process and a network committed to assisting communities, businesses and organisations to anticipate, transform and ‘tune’ themselves to the future through the thinking framework and practice of resilience. It is the Network’s job to create awareness, teach and advise on the use of the framework and practice. Its aim is to foster resilience; that is for practitioners, to be able to flow with ever changing conditions and prosper. And the overall reason for being is to create a resilient world.
In the past executive leadership have had the luxury of assuming that business models were more or less immortal. Organizations might plan, but basically it was about getting better within ‘business as usual’. Today’s organizational environment is a stormy sea change of continuously emergent risk and reward that cannot be dealt with by static, set and forget plans. Strategic resilience is not about responding to a one-time crisis or rebounding from a setback. It’s about continually anticipating and adjusting to deep, long tail trends that can permanently impair the earning power of a core business, or abruptly force the devaluing of key assets.
When this type of analysis is brought rigorously to bear upon the challenge of achieving LONG RANGE socioeconomic stability, we finally see BIEN and USBIG in the proper context. These measures are not about the archaic conceptions and perceptions of warring 18th and 19th century nationalist villages, bickering over such rudimentary historical distinctions as capitalism, socialism, communism, etc. While history must inform our choices, surely we need not repeat those futile confrontations.
Moving toward the 22nd century, such anachronistic labels become increasingly obsolete as we think soberly about resilient architectures for a sustainable post-scarcity global village. We need to converse in entirely new vocabularies; we need to elevate public discourse above the clamor of extinct feuding clans of past centuries; we need a new lexicon that reflects the realities of THIS century and the EMERGING century; as we finally become “comfortable in our own skins,” walking upright anew; as existentially co-equal citizens of an abundant, sustainable, fully integrated, interconnected, post-information global village.