TRADING DOW FOR DAO
A CONCISE HISTORY & CONCEIVABLE FUTURE FOR THE AWAKENING CHANGEMAKER
ARE YOU AN AWAKENING CHANGEMAKER?
You Want to Understand How We Got Here
From Aristotle to Adam Smith to Ayn Rand, you’ll journey through the intellectual lineage that daily shapes the reality of America’s mainstream capitalist, materialist culture.
YOU’LL ENJOY THIS BOOK IF:
You Sense There Is More To Explore
From Buddhism and Daoism to indigenous tradition the world over, you’ll learn of the “perennial philosophy” that unifies a spiritual, mystical orientation towards reality.
You Dream of A Better Way Forward
From examining the societal ills manifest by the techno-utopianism of the Information Age to a more inclusive capitalism and beyond, you’ll explore possible frameworks for change.
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INTRODUCTION
AS OF JUNE 2021, America’s four richest individuals, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg, technology entrepreneurs all, held a combined net worth of approximately 587 billion dollars. Forbes Magazine reported this number in an online tracker they termed “The Real-Time Billionaires List.” Underneath the headline “Today’s Winners and Losers,” the tracker displays 10 headshots of 10 billionaires. Each photo has overlaid on it, at bottom, a green up arrow or red down arrow, plus a number: $3.6 B, $2.6 B, $1.2 B. These indicate the daily increase or decrease, in billions, of each outlandish fortune.
As perspective, to understand more fully this elite competition, a million minutes covers just under two years, while a billion minutes represents nearly two thousand years. A million minutes ago, Donald Trump was the American President. A billion minutes ago, Jesus Christ walked the Earth. Which is to say, certainly to the average American, but even to the average millionaire, the 587 billion dollars accumulated by Bezos, Musk, Gates, and Zuckerberg represents a nearly unimaginable, unprecedented amount of money.
In May of 2020, Musk offered this to the podcaster Joe Rogan: “How does this wealth arise? It’s if you organize people in a better way to produce products and services that are better than what existed before and you have some ownership in that company then that essentially gives you the right to allocate more capital.” The simple statement from this complex man reveals within it four forces that enable the existence of billionaires and shape mainstream American society…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Leo Raderman
Leo Raderman leads Psykia Institute, an organization merging breakthrough science and traditional wisdom to develop programs that cultivate psychological and spiritual well-being.
He is a Partner at Pretty Well Fit, an agency dedicated to helping entrepreneurs bring their visions to life.
Prior, he founded / co-founded several organizations: the Grof Holotropic Foundation, a non-profit formed with Dr. Stanislav Grof, M.D. and his wife Brigitte Grof; IFILM.com, the pioneering dot-com era site for film over the Internet; Obscura Digital, the creative and technological innovator of giant-scale video projection; Nukotoys, known as “Silicon Valley’s toy company;” and miraclefeet, the world’s leading non-profit dedicated to providing treatment to children born with clubfoot.
These endeavors have been featured by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, PBS, Variety, GQ Magazine, Venturebeat and more.
