Accidental Gods | No More Rat Race. Creating a world without bullshit jobs - with renegade economist, Della Duncan

What if our work made our hearts sing every day? What if everyone were paid what they were actually worth? What if the profits went into the community, to build the better world our hearts know is possible?  How would that actually work?  Let’s find out!  

Renegade Economist and Right Livelihood coach, Della Duncan, has spent most of her professional life exploring the ideas that might transform our culture into the more beautiful, flourishing - fun, joyful,  - safe - world our hearts know is possible.  In this deep-dive interview, we explore the furthest edges of what our world might look and feel like if we were able to reconfigure our economy so that every transaction was predicated on the flourishing of the human and more-than-human worlds.   From Manfred Max-Neef to the Post Growth Foundation, we explore the ideas at the cutting edge of human potential. 

Links: 

Della’s website:  https://www.dellazduncan.com

UPSTREAM podcast - radio documentary series (including UBI) https://www.upstreampodcast.org/documentaries

Helena Norberg-Hodge World Localisation Day: https://worldlocalizationday.org

No Impact Man: https://colinbeavan.com/search-no-impact/ 

How on Earth? - how to flourish in a  post-growth world: https://www.howonearth.us

How on Earth? YouTube: https://youtu.be/x07vWvdChAM

Anand Giridharadras ‘Winners Take All’, https://www.amazon.co.uk/Winners-Take-All-Charade-Changing/dp/0141990910/

Christian Felber - ‘Change Everything’ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Change-Everything-Creating-Economy-Common/dp/1783604727

Movement Generation: https://movementgeneration.org

Stewart Brand, The Long Now Foundation: http://longnow.org/

Manfred Max-Neef: Human Scale Development: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Human-Scale-Development-Application-Reflections/dp/094525735X

Manfred Max-Neef: Economics Unmasked: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Economics-Unmasked-Berlin-Technologie-pack/dp/1900322706

7 Fundamental Human Needs: based on Max-Neef’s work: https://www.kennethmd.com/the-7-fundamental-human-needs/

What is Accidental Gods ?

Another World is still Possible. The old system was never fit for purpose and now it has gone- and it's never coming back.

We have the power of gods to destroy our home. But we also have the chance to become something we cannot yet imagine,
and by doing so, lay the foundations for a future we would be proud to leave to the generations yet unborn.

What happens if we commit to a world based on generative values: compassion, courage, integrity?

What happens if we let go of the race for meaningless money and commit instead to the things that matter: clean air, clean water, clean soil - and clean, clear, courageous connections between all parts of ourselves (so we have to do the inner work of healing individually and collectively), between ourselves and each other (so we have to do the outer work of relearning how to build generative communities) and between ourselves and the Web of Life (so we have to reclaim our birthright as conscious nodes in the web of life)?

We can do this - and every week on Accidental Gods we speak with the people who are living this world into being. We have all the answers, we just (so far) lack the visions and collective will to weave them into a future that works. We can make this happen. We will. Join us.

Accidental Gods is a podcast and membership program devoted to exploring the ways we can create a future that we would be proud to leave to the generations yet to come.

If we're going to emerge into a just, equitable - and above all regenerative - future, we need to get to know the people who are already living, working, thinking and believing at the leading edge of inter-becoming transformation.
Accidental Gods exists to bring these voices to the world so that we can work together to lay the foundations of a world we'd be proud to leave to the generations that come after us.
We have the choice now - we can choose to transform…or we can face the chaos of a failing system.
Our Choice. Our Chance. Our Future.

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