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1 week ago | 
elysian.press | Olivier Roland
This essay is by for CITY STATE, a collection of seven writers exploring autonomous governance. You can support the project by collecting the digital or print edition here 👇🏻I think digital nomads are the closest thing we have to a network state, ‘s concept of a future world of decentralized nation-states.
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1 week ago | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin |Anja Charbonneau
I spend a lot of money printing magazines and books each year, and I wanted to figure out how to do it more profitably. Late last year I reached out to several publishers I admired who seemed to do it successfully and asked for their mentorship. On our private calls, however, two admitted that their quarterly magazines did not make money, and in fact were rather expensive to produce.
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2 weeks ago | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin
We’re currently publishing CITY STATE, seven writers exploring autonomous governance through an online series and print pamphlet. You can still support the project by collecting the digital or print edition here 👇🏻These pieces are designed to get us to think about small, local governance and how the world might be reorganized for the better. I thought it might be fun to close the series by gathering for an online literary salon discussion prompted by the topics we’ve been reading about.
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3 weeks ago | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin
Like many ancient Italian villages, Matera was once a thriving civilization that became abandoned for bigger cities with more universities and better jobs. The picturesque town perched upon mountain caves has played Jerusalem in more than one Jesus film and hosts only 60,000 residents. There have been many attempts to revitalize Italian villages: Selling houses for €1 to attract international development or giving residents €8,000 to start businesses there.
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3 weeks ago | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin |Lauren Razavi
What comes after the sovereign individual? A discussion with Lauren Razavi about sovereign collectives.
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4 weeks ago | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin
If we should give tax autonomy to US states, maybe we should also create new ones. After all, as we’ve seen, our smaller local governments better represent us than our national ones, and democracy works better in small groups. Maybe that means we should create even smaller ones. A growing separatist movement aims to do just that: Redraw state lines to better represent communities.
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1 month ago | 
elysian.press | Étienne Fortier-Dubois
The year is 2033, and a unit of the People's Liberation Army has just stormed the Presidential Office in Taipei, forcing the President of the Republic of China to surrender. Thus ends the full-scale invasion of Taiwan that Xi Jinping, recently elected to a fifth term as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, has long dreamed about. From afar I follow the news, and wonder: why? What was the point of this? Who will actually benefit?
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1 month ago | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin
I wanted to create a place where you can enter ideas as you have them, share articles and research as you come upon them, and contribute your own brainstorming to my We Should Own The Economy project. Think of it like a suggestion box, but for crowdsourcing generative ideas. At any time during the project you can contribute ideas here that might be wort…
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1 month ago | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin
What if US states had the same autonomy as EU countries? Theoretically, Vermont could become a social democracy just like Malta—after all, they have the same population size and GDP per capita. California has the same population as Spain and is twice as rich by GDP per capita—they could afford to subsidize childcare, healthcare, and education just like Spain.
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1 month ago | 
elysian.press | Elle Griffin
In case you missed it: I’m crowdfunding my next book advance and giving readers a share of the profits. The book is called We Should Own The Economy: A vision for the future of capitalism (and the world). We’ve already raised $38,000 of my $50,000 goal—only $12,000 to go!!!!I’ve been meeting with the investors in this project every day and I am beyond inspired. You are founders and entrepreneurs building better companies, you are investors who want to fund them.