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Our community round has opened-let's fund this book!

1 week ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

We’ve raised nearly $60,000 in investment pledges for my book We Should Own The Economy. Learn more about the project here. Our community round is open—time to confirm your investment! Click the link in your email to confirm your investment or click here to check your confirmation status. Join our call tonight! We’ll be discussing the book, the crowdfund, and how we can build the future of capitalism. RSVP here.
How Silicon Valley got rich

1 week ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is research for my book We Should Own The Economy, which I’m writing in public. Readers can still invest in the project and earn a share of the revenue when it sells 👇🏻In 1957, eight engineers left their former semiconductor company and convinced Sherman Fairchild to back a new one. This was unusual at the time; entrepreneurship wasn’t a readily available path, and angel investment a rarity.
Who should control AI?

2 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is research for a book I’m writing called We Should Own The Economy, readers can invest in the project and earn a share of profits when it’s done 👇🏻When OpenAI launched in 2015, they did so with an impressive mission: To develop AI that would benefit humanity by automating repetitive work or curing cancer, but without unintended consequences that might harm humanity, like rapidly displacing jobs or trying to kill us all.
CITY STATE: A discussion about autonomous governance

3 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

Thank you for joining us for a discussion about our CITY STATE collection. Here’s the recording from our discussion.
120 million employee-owners in one generation

3 weeks ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is part of my book, We Should Own The Economy, which I am researching in public. Readers can invest in the project and earn a share of the earnings here 👇🏻If 120 million workers became owners in the companies they work for, the impact on wealth ownership would be seismic. As of 2024, the wealthiest 10% of Americans owned 86.6% of stocks and equities (about $53.87 trillion in value) while the bottom half owned only 1% (about $622 billion).
Let's read Moral Ambition together

1 month ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

I’m hosting a book club on Rutger Bregman’s new book Moral Ambition—paid subscribers can RSVP at the bottom of this postRutger Bregman is my favorite living author—if you haven’t read Utopia for Realists yet, please run out and get it. It’s one of my favorite books of all time, and a real inspiration to me and my work. His latest book, however, is even better. Moral Ambition is the single most important book I’ve read in the last decade.
We’ve raised $50,000-now I’m writing a book!

1 month ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

We raised $50,000+ in investment pledges for my book We Should Own The Economy.
How we’re profit sharing on Metalabel

1 month ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

I’m building a media cooperative in public and sharing the process with paid subscribers. Join us 👇🏻CITY STATE was the first project the Elysian Collective released on Metalabel, a new platform that allows artists to collaborate on projects and split the profits. Seven writers and one designer contributed to the series and we sold the collection as digital and print pamphlets. As of last week, we sold 41 print pamphlets and 101 digital editions, earning $732.33 for the project.
You can collect CITY STATE now

1 month ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

Thank you so much for reading CITY STATE, an essay collection featuring seven writers exploring autonomous governance through an online series and print pamphlet. We finished publishing the series this week and you can support the project by purchasing the digital or print edition at a price that works best for you. There are 10 articles in the collection, plus graphic design by , and thus profits are shared 11 ways. You can also catch up on the series online.
How we achieve the borderless future of Terra Ignota

1 month ago | elysian.press | Elle Griffin

This essay is by me, , for CITY STATE, a collection of seven writers exploring autonomous governance. You can support the project by collecting the digital or print edition here 👇🏻It’s the year 2131 and flying cars can circle the globe in four hours. When anyone can live in Spain, work in New Zealand, and attend an afternoon meeting in Japan, the nation-state becomes irrelevant. Why would anyone pledge allegiance to the patch of dirt they were born on?