Some things that might be components of a version that actually has some shot at working:
https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/ is a currency system specifically designed to be hyper-local and not connected long distance, unlike typical alternate currency systems like global cryptocurrencies, because this disconnection limits international interests’ incentive to manipulate the currency for their own powerseeking. interesting videos about the motivation and design on https://www.youtube.com/@WillRuddick/videos—importantly it’s intended to be a secondary currency used in small groups where another currency is also in use.
if you want to defend this idea further, I’d suggest integrating some of this into the next video on the topic, so that it can head off criticisms from many perspectives, not just criticisms from liberal and libertarian perspectives, which seem to be all that the current one has discussion of. I’d suggest you watch most of the videos from https://www.youtube.com/@unlearningeconomics9021 to get a sense of what another perspective might look like that you’d need to defend against, because almost all the comments seem to be people who understand the left’s criticisms and the video doesn’t seem to be made with those criticisms in mind. (Note that I do not generally believe the old fashioned left have solutions, just good criticisms. Only specific slices of the modern left have actual ideas for how to implement stuff that might actually work. and for clarity, left != liberal. left here is anything left of liberal.)
In general, the idea that “faster growth” is in any way good for the common person is considered propaganda for corporations at this point. If you want to change that, you’d have to show a mechanism for it to be different.
I will definitely check out that youtube channel! I’m pretty interested in mechanism design and public-goods stuff, and I agree there are a lot of good ideas there. For instance, I am a huge fan of Georgism, so I definitely recognize that going all-in on the “libertarian individualist approach” is often not the right fit for the situation! Honestly, even though charter cities are somewhat an intrinsically libertarian concept, part of the reason I like the charter city idea is indeed the potential for experimenting with new ways to manage the commons and provide public goods—Telosa is explicitly georgist, for example, and even hyper-libertarian Prospera has some pretty interesting concepts around things like crime liability insurance, which in the USA is considered a pretty left-wing (or maybe “far-liberal”? idk...) idea for trying to reduce gun violence.
But yeah, a lot of common leftist critiques of society/capitalism/etc can feel kind of… shallow, or overly-formulaic, or confused about the incentives of a given situation, to me? So I’d like to get a better understanding of the best versions of the leftist worldview, in order to better appreciate what the common critiques are getting at.
Some things that might be components of a version that actually has some shot at working:
https://www.grassrootseconomics.org/ is a currency system specifically designed to be hyper-local and not connected long distance, unlike typical alternate currency systems like global cryptocurrencies, because this disconnection limits international interests’ incentive to manipulate the currency for their own powerseeking. interesting videos about the motivation and design on https://www.youtube.com/@WillRuddick/videos—importantly it’s intended to be a secondary currency used in small groups where another currency is also in use.
https://www.actu-environnement.com/media/pdf/ostrom_1990.pdf or https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Governing_the_Commons or https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ostrom+governing+the+commons—there’s solid research on designs for organizations that do not rely on the typical libertarian individualist approach and could use something more peer to peer and cooperative. I have a high opinion of many libertarian principles, but the “everyone is completely separated and nothing is managed through resource sharing systems of any kind, it’s all assumed to be one-gatekeeper-per-resource” seems like a recipe to get all the resource holders hodling at the expense of non-resource-holders, which is the core issue anticipated by commenters.
if you want to defend this idea further, I’d suggest integrating some of this into the next video on the topic, so that it can head off criticisms from many perspectives, not just criticisms from liberal and libertarian perspectives, which seem to be all that the current one has discussion of. I’d suggest you watch most of the videos from https://www.youtube.com/@unlearningeconomics9021 to get a sense of what another perspective might look like that you’d need to defend against, because almost all the comments seem to be people who understand the left’s criticisms and the video doesn’t seem to be made with those criticisms in mind. (Note that I do not generally believe the old fashioned left have solutions, just good criticisms. Only specific slices of the modern left have actual ideas for how to implement stuff that might actually work. and for clarity, left != liberal. left here is anything left of liberal.)
In general, the idea that “faster growth” is in any way good for the common person is considered propaganda for corporations at this point. If you want to change that, you’d have to show a mechanism for it to be different.
I will definitely check out that youtube channel! I’m pretty interested in mechanism design and public-goods stuff, and I agree there are a lot of good ideas there. For instance, I am a huge fan of Georgism, so I definitely recognize that going all-in on the “libertarian individualist approach” is often not the right fit for the situation! Honestly, even though charter cities are somewhat an intrinsically libertarian concept, part of the reason I like the charter city idea is indeed the potential for experimenting with new ways to manage the commons and provide public goods—Telosa is explicitly georgist, for example, and even hyper-libertarian Prospera has some pretty interesting concepts around things like crime liability insurance, which in the USA is considered a pretty left-wing (or maybe “far-liberal”? idk...) idea for trying to reduce gun violence.
But yeah, a lot of common leftist critiques of society/capitalism/etc can feel kind of… shallow, or overly-formulaic, or confused about the incentives of a given situation, to me? So I’d like to get a better understanding of the best versions of the leftist worldview, in order to better appreciate what the common critiques are getting at.