"How to Say "No" to an Economic Frankenfuture"

This was sweet, the real meat isn't intro below, "Dear Big Cheeses That Run The World", it's the "Generation M Consensus" ideas - go to the original page and read them.

Here's an example of an "M consensus principle:

The People Principle. Perhaps the biggest incentive we can give corporations to start getting serious about real innovation again, then, is what might be called humanization. The next item of the Washington Consensus's moldy agenda is legally protecting the corporation. It's been taken to an absurd extreme, with the doctrine that corporations must enjoy legal personhood. But (Earth to beancounters) corporations aren't people — only people are people. The former face few of the obligations citizens do, can't face the same kinds of punishments, are legally bound to maximize profit in ways that citizens aren't, and tend to have thousands of times more cash, time, and power, which means they can afford to de facto buy rights almost no person on earth has (like hiring batteries of lawyers to fight cases for decades). Corporations, like hammers, are just tools. And for the same reason we don't anthropomorphize hammers, nor should we empower corporations with the same rights and powers as people. Where the Washington Consensus humanizes corporations, and dehumanizes people, the M consensus suggests unhumanizing corporations, and rehumanizing people.

http://blogs.hbr.org/haque/2010/08/how_to_say_no_to_an_economic.html

Dear Big Cheeses Who Run the World,

We regret to inform that you're fired. We're really, truly sorry about this, but we're going to have to let you go. It's time for you to pursue other opportunities.

In case you haven't noticed (and who can blame you? It's pretty hard to see it from private jets, mega-yachts, 158th floor boardrooms, and members-only backrooms) times are pretty tough lately, and we've got to cut back somewhere. In fact, that we're beginning to suspect that maybe, just maybe the entire contract between us, you, and tomorrow — the Washington Consensus, yesterday's blueprint for building economies, communities, and societies — is fatally broken.

Yes, though it did fuel a dismal sort of prosperity, we'd like to aim slightly higher than McGrowth. Because what that seems to have led to, at the end of the day, is a level-five epidemic of austerity. Your solution? Well, it's all a little too Dr Frankenstein for us, frankly — undead companies, banks, funds, and boards, patched and stitched piecemeal back together, shocked back into life via the electric jolt of yet another bailout, stimulus, or special exemption so they can stagger on into a desolate tomorrow.

Thanks — really — but no thanks. We'd like to pass on your very kind, rather creepy plan for a Frankenfuture. It's time, instead, for us to take a quantum leap into the 21st century; to, once again, with steadfast determination, unyielding courage, and just a little bit of trembling trepidation, leave the past behind — and furiously pioneer a better tomorrow.

Please don't worry about us, though — because we're not worried about you. Gambling away other peoples' money, glad-handing each other, double-crossing Planet Earth, and driving companies and entire economies into the red — these are highly employable skills, and we're sure you'll land on your feet. We'll be happy to provide a reference spelling out your expertise at being zombie overlords, should you ever need one.

Just in case, though, you're in need of some totally utopian, rather idealistic, hopelessly naive, laughably unrealistic, stupidly hopeful, colossally constructive, thoroughly impertinent reading material, here's a little crib sheet we're leaving behind for you. It's a brief, crude stab at a new set of design principles that might, just might, be able to spark 21st century economies, communities, and societies, and ignite a more authentic, enduring prosperity.

Call it, if you like, the Generation M* Consensus — the growing consensus of a global movement dedicated to toppling the old order, by doing meaningful stuff that matters the most.

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