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"Significantly, this view shifts our perspective on how and why markets work from their allocative efficiency to their effectiveness in promoting creativity. It suggests that markets are evolutionary systems that each day carry out millions of simultaneous experiments on ways to make our lives better. In other words, the essential role of capitalism is not allocation - it is creation.
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The genius of capitalism is that it both creates incentives for solving human problems and makes those solutions widely available. And it is solutions to human problems that define prosperity, not money.
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This is why prosperity in human societies can’t be properly understood by looking just at monetary measures, such as income or wealth. Prosperity in a society is the accumulation of solutions to human problems.
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Ultimately, the measure of the wealth of a society is the range of human problems it has solved and how available it has made those solutions to its people. Every item in a modern retail store can be thought of as a solution to a different kind of problem - how to eat, dress, entertain, make homes more comfortable, and so on. The more and better the solutions available to us, the more prosperity we have.
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If prosperity is created by solving human problems, a key question for society is what kind of economic system will solve the most problems for the most people most quickly. This is the genius of capitalism: it is an unmatched evolutionary system for finding solutions."

O quanto eu gosto deste trecho que se segue:

"The orthodox economic view holds that capitalism works because it is efficient. But in reality, capitalism’s great strength is its problem-solving creativity and effectiveness. It is this creative effectiveness that by necessity makes it hugely inefficient and, like all evolutionary processes, inherently wasteful. Proof of this can be found in the large numbers of product lines, investments, and business ventures that fail every year.
Successful capitalism requires what venture capitalist William Janeway calls “Schumpeterian waste.”"

Trechos retirados de "Redefining capitalism"

Indie capitalism e Mongo!!!

"If you add up all the trends under way today, I believe we are beginning to see the start of something original, and perhaps wonderful. (Moi ici: Interessante e sintomático o uso desta palavra "wonderful". Ler este postal e ver este extracto do filme retirado e disponível aqui)

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Indie (Moi ici: "Indie" de independente) capitalism is, above all, a maker system of economics based on creating new value, not trading old value. It embraces all the strains of maker culture--food, indie music, DIY, craft, 3-D digital fabrication, bio-hacking, app enabling, CAD modeling, robotics, tinkering. Making is not a rare act performed by a few but a routine happening in which just about everyone participates. (Moi ici: Mongo como um mundo de artesãos) Making and using tools are part of a meaningful existence. And tools shift from a ritual presence to a practical role in everyday life. Having great tools and making great things begin to replace consumption as an end in itself.

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We are just two guys who made something people want to buy, and then we sell it to them. No middle men, no big corporations, no venture capital, no investments. (Moi ici: Isto é Mongo!!!)

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A while back, the futurist Paul Saffo predicted a new “creator economy” replacing the industrial and consumer economies. I like the term but prefer “indie capitalism” because it captures more of the social context and values of this new economy. I think it is sufficiently different from the entrepreneurial, startup culture of Stanford/Silicon Valley to warrant its own name. The term feels more 21st century, while “startup” sounds, well, 20th century. It’s socially focused, not technology focused, more designer/artist-centric than engineering-centric. (Moi ici: Definitivamente, e quem não perceber isto perde parte importante dos alicerces... leiam Hilary Austen!!!)

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I think that rising before us may be the solution to all that. Indie capitalism could be the kind of reinvigorated capitalism that we can all believe in again. To make it really work, we might need a new indie economics (of creativity and innovation), plus a new indie set of political policies. (Moi ici: Façam como eu, procurem na biblioteca o livro dos Toffler "A 3ª Vaga". Depois, leiam tudo sobre a "electronic cottage")

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Trechos retirados de "4 Reasons Why The Future Of Capitalism Is Homegrown, Small Scale, And Independent"