Scarcity = Abundance - Trust

(draft) How Commons turn into commodities. And vanish.

My post about the origins of our trust debacle generated many fascinating comments on LinkedIn, some of which poured love on a formula I created a few years back:

 Scarcity = Abundance - Trust

So I thought I'd take a moment to explain it better.

Before we start, a trigger warning: this is a bit of a critique of our present form of capitalism. Hope you're ready for that.

To start, here's a virtual talk I gave in the Early Pandemic for the ExO community.

I've put the video's transcript here. See it in full context in my Brain, here.

The Ur-post lives here.

— Jerry Michalski

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This article is cross-posted on Substack here, Medium here and LinkedIn here. It's also here in my Brain.

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