Productive Economy, Contributory Economy

7New Reward Tools

7.1. The end of liberalist doxa in favor of reciprocity

We have been developing our model of society ever since sedentarization: first agriculture, then industry, then finance. In this model, we exchange time or risktaking for goods and services. Everything is reduced to a price. This price is certainly dependent on supply and demand; it is also determined in such a way that the tools and methods of production can evolve.

The model of society that has been imposed is based on property and the rent that comes with it. This is particularly true since the advent of the industrial age and above all of the intensification of liberalist thinking, which has been imprinted in our accounting and set up as a virtually unique model in our schools and universities.

Now, in order to address complexity, governance is moving from a hierarchical to an organic mode because all talents and knowledge must be encouraged to cooperate in order to foster the dynamics and resilience of the community.

In such a context, the differences in remuneration become complicated to justify: some bring equipment or capital, others bring knowledge, talent or simply enthusiasm and courage. All these forms of contribution become complementary and call for skills that are very rarely combined in one person. Those who have invested in equipment have taken financial risks, and those who have invested in talent and knowledge have taken risks in terms of managing their knowledge and experience assets. ...