If I could venture a guess: what comes next is an era of some kind of communalism. In an era where natural resources are becoming expensive and climate change

If I could venture a guess: what comes next is an era of some kind of communalism. In an era where natural resources are becoming expensive and climate change is becoming a daily reality, the way to maintain a high standard of living is through sharing things. You can see it happening through coliving spaces, coworking spaces, renewed interest in mass transit, and I think you’re going to see the growth of sharing economies of various kinds. This way to live abandons the total individualism of the market but without being a totalizing system like Soviet style communism. Obviously this is all guesswork on my part- but consider: this solves the problem of poverty (if most things are shared then they are available to all) it removes much of the overhead of huge militaries and policing (no poverty means much lower crime, and moving decisions down to the more local level removes incentives and opportunity for waging war), it allows a much higher standard of living with much lower environmental impact, if investment decisions are made on the communal level then financial engineering becomes much less prevalent- it just seems like localizing and democratizing decision making solves a lot of problems (no doubt it will create new ones but that’s the next generation’s problem). And as the article says, new ideas start on the margins and make their way inward, and I can tell you that these are the ideas on the margins right now.