Reddit mentions of 150-Strong: A Pathway to a Different Future

I think, - well rather, I hope - that something we will see is the emergence of more small local organizations of people that help provide for the needs of the people in their communities, that operate on more of an altruistic organizing principle, like "lets help provide for people and make sure we all have everything we need".

There's a good little book on this sort of concept called 150 strong. It's based on Dunbar's number, which is the concept that your empathy can only effectively extend to a certain amount of people, like 150-250 people, and after that things become impersonal. The author goes over capitalism and communism and some of the flaws of both of them, and then considers how we might organize things in a different way based more around Dunbar's number and an organizing principle of helping each other out. I think this is a sort of system that might emerge spontaneously if there was a big crisis, because it's closer to our natural tribal ways of organizing ourselves.

The main thing I like about that book is that he introduces the concept of how a society can be based on different organizing principles. Our society is based on the principle of profitability, to where that is the ultimate end that every organization is based on. Even our educational systems are based on extracting profit out of the people being educated, and in almost everything, you see how that organizing principle can really screw things up.

I think at least one revolutionary future idea is that we could reformulate education under different organizing principles. The principles could be that we attempt to educate everybody, and as efficiently as possible, for free, and then encourage more freedom of organization among scientific thinkers and other disciplines instead of shuttling people into some bloated and ineffective academia system where people usually end up working on some minutia they aren't even interested in. Our way forward as a species is very much hand in hand with our modern scientific endeavor, and so I think it's only wise that we all educate ourselves on it and allow better ways for the people who are into it to organize and come up with ideas.

Anyway, I don't know, I'm just spit balling some stuff I think would be ideal. I'm sure the world at large will continue to be more of an extremely complex mosaic of different systems, both good and bad, and it's nearly impossible to say what will emerge out of it after a sort of shift away from the current way things are done. Hopefully we can handle things and actually make things better instead of allowing things to revert and get worse. Who knows.