Productive Economy, Contributory Economy

Introduction to Part 1

Global warming, the spread of poverty, the appropriation of our data, etc. These signs that worry us mobilize the most militant and anger the most conservative. The power of their fear stimulates reflection and encourages innovation. A long journey of struggles and victories, which will last at least three generations, is beginning. For, as we shall see, even if more and more of the world’s citizens understand that we have reached the end of the civilization model, we do not have the tools, nor the institutions, to govern the world to come and prepare the generations to come.

In a world that wants to be connected, we do not have any more effective means of cohesion than those of our elders when they felt the need to change their model of society. And yet, it is by bringing together ideas and the will to change that we will be able to move forward.

Indeed, in order to equip ourselves with the institutions we will need, it is necessary to understand the causes of the change that is imposed on us. This change requires us to accept a more complex organization for people who are more mature, more demanding as well as more responsible and accountable.

The 20th century began with the unraveling of European monarchies and the rise of a new form of governance, certainly inspired by ancient Rome, but which had yet to be discovered. The 21st century began with the realization that another form of governance must take over from the current one. It is not the one ...