We Can Influence Our Peers

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Each one of us is nominally influential. So there's so much we can do at every level. Our own personal behavior choices do matter. But i'm gong to go back to where you put the emphasis. I agree, it's the design of the technologies and what they are designed to do. That is always going to be where i put my attention as tective. From the global financial system to town planning to all the technology companies in sillican valley,. We need to re design them, rather than let them re design us.

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.