Productive Economy, Contributory Economy

Preface

Streamlining the way we produce and consume is becoming a matter of course. This is becoming possible thanks to digital technology. But, as a result, the social pact, developed in Europe over time, must change radically. This requires us to take up three challenges:

• – the first concerns the restructuring of the “productive” economy, which is dedicated to the satisfaction of the primary needs of individuals;
• – the second is the recognition of the “contributory” economy, which is dedicated to the common good. We must reorient our value creation capacities towards contributory tasks such as the family, knowledge, the environment, democracy and spirituality. We must take up this challenge because developing the common good becomes a factor of competitiveness;
• – the third concerns the development of the new model of society that is taking shape and that recognizes several forms of value creation¹. But its implementation will require a great deal of determination because the current model is marked by our “deep past” inherited from sedentarization. A huge effort of understanding and audacity is needed to develop our tools of governance, including the social pact and currencies. Imagine, model and experiment with a more complex, but more mature economy: let’s go for it!

Read as you wish: start with the first or second part. The cross-references allow for a tour of the many facets of this change that everyone is talking about. To understand it, you have to go into the details, ...