Living Systems Institute

The Three Assumptions that Prevent Us From Building the World We Want

Someone else is responsible

Every human being, including you, will defend those connections on which they rely for their sustenance.  We do not change the world by demanding change from others.  We change the world by creating new connections for ourselves.

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Resources are Scarce

The things that life needs to thrive are not scarce.  Life thrives on itself when it can establish diverse, complex, stable and productive interactions.  We make life scarce when we dedicate each space to a single purpose.

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The market can solve all our problems

Each of us has the capacity to produce any number of goods and services at any given time.  Some of what we produce can flow out through the market if it is relatively scarce to someone else who has the money to pay for it.  If we rely solely on a market system, the rest of our potential production is lost.  That is what creates scarcity in the system.

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