The Games We Design Shape Who We Become

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The day they played pandemic, and their first experience of playing a collabrative game. They co operated in a way i have never seen them co operate forks. And so to hell with monopoly. You're telling them, extract mothers until you're the only one left in the game. It's the most disgusting version of human interaction. And it wasn't even designed to be like that. The models we create, the games we create, shape who we become. Let's put our attention on what is possible, rather than the vortex we see ourselves dragged into.

When Kate Raworth began studying economics, she was disappointed that the mainstream version of the discipline didn’t fully address many of the world issues that she wanted to tackle, such as human rights and environmental destruction. She left the field, but was inspired to jump back in after the financial crisis of 2008, when she saw an opportunity to introduce fresh perspectives. She sat down and drew a chart in the shape of a doughnut, which provided a way to think about our economic system while accounting for the impact to the world around us, as well as for humans’ baseline needs. Kate’s framing can teach us a lot about how to transform the economic model of the technology industry, helping us move from a system that values addicted, narcissistic, polarized humans to one that values healthy, loving and collaborative relationships. Her book, “Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist,” gives us a guide for transitioning from a 20th-century paradigm to an evolved 21st-century one that will address our existential-scale problems.