Intro to Fridays Economics with J. L. Friday
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Hiya and welcome to Friday’s Economics, a poor woman’s version of Gary’s Economics.
This is an intro episode with an overview of what we’ll be covering in this series, plus hints and a basic gamified and interactive element built in.
In this Episode
Mentions and References
Quoted Neil McInroy from this interview:
Inferred but not mentioned directly: Barry’s Economics.
Leaderboard
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This is where Friday draft’s the script outline, etc. See “behind the scenes” of brainstorming the epsiode.
For the Intro episode, it means outlining the entire initial Series and game.
In this series, we’ll be covering:
Why GDP no longer serves us, and what we can measure instead
How to play Game B and move beyond GDP
The Tower of Babel Problem: why humanity works against itself
Why politics is least effective way to change the system
Private equity and what we can do about it
The rise of philanthrocapitalism and what comes next
How to build a business in the wellbeing economy
And much more. Coming soon.
OUTLINING THE INITIAL SERIES
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Intro Video (outlined below) – Needs landing page and launch signup
Playing Game B: What’s a wellbeing economy? Why Wellbeing > GDP (and other metrics) How money drives disconnection, extractive vs regenerative systems
CASE STUDY: Simon Squibb & HelpBnk
The Tower of Babel Problem why humanity works against itself (Marketing)
CASE STUDY: Gary Stevenson vs Daniel Priestley
Politics – why facts don’t change minds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc37TvHN74
Economy of the fear of abandonment, Rudolf Steiner https://books.google.com/books/about/World_economy.html?id=Hu-D0AEACAAJ
Rhythms – how to take over a culture.
CASE STUDY: Powell Memo & Bernays Propaganda?
Key Person of Influence – Gary Stevenson vs Daniel Priestley
Money?? The key to extraction?
CASE STUDY: Freewater?
Private Equity and What We Can Do
CASE STUDIES: Boring businesses, ESOPs, EOTs.
Flows: The end of charity and activism? + ABCD MODEL
CASE STUDY?
Sales (asks and offers) transactionalism vs relationship
CASE STUDY:
(?) Connection and Cooperation, Relationships, Community & Network Weaving & Organising in General?
CASE STUDY: Community Building?
Game Mechanics > Is it fun? Rules / SOPs / Governance
CASE STUDY: Morningstar? Valve? Buurtzorg? Valve.
The Product – Basic Needs
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Frames: Current frame / extraction / division / GDP
New frame: Regeneration / connection / wellbeing
- Purpose of the system / “why”
- Marketing & Storytelling
- Relationships / Community / Network Weaving
- Sales (asks and offers), the transaction
- Game mechanics / support and delivery systems / SOPs and governance/ “The How”
- The product itself (a need met)
- Rhythms, how we iterate and Kaizen
Teams: Visionary, Operations/Systems, Relationships, Doer
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GAME MECHANICS
Marketing funnel -> Unaware, problem aware, solution aware, product aware, fully aware
What motivates people? Daniel Pink
Behavioural Economics -> people aren’t rational
Complexity Theory – > Choose your own adventure
Rhythms
TOPICS
Valve Handbook / Morningstar Tomatoes -> https://cdn.akamai.steamstatic.com/apps/valve/Valve_NewEmployeeHandbook.pdf
Fantasy Housing Development
Money Game / Ren
The Value of Money (pennies COST money)
Bullshit Jobs
GAMIFICATION VERSION
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Hiya and welcome to Friday’s Economics.
A poor woman’s version of Gary’s Economics –
Firstly, Culture Science or how changing culture changes the whole game – and how to do it.
And secondly, community wealth and the movement of movements getting us all closer to economies that support all life and grow wellbeing instead of GDP.
It’s like going from this Monopoly to Minecraft.
I’m J. L. Friday, and I’ve spent the last three years researching this while homeless.
I found that there are solutions for humanity’s biggest problems everywhere, they’re not something we have to wait for government to get behind, people are building this themselves all over the world – you’re just not hearing about it on the news yet.
TAKE WELLBEING ECONOMIES MAINSTREAM “INSERT QUOTE”
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If you’re following this channel you’re here to actually DO something not just passively consume content, so get ready for homework.
Penny drop for humanity!!!!
BET: We actually LIKE doing hard things – if they’re meaningful
Did you find the secret in the video?
Good luck, have fun.
Friday out.
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Hiya and welcome to Friday’s Economics.
I’m J. L. Friday, author of The not-yet-released Saving the World Strategy Guide and I think the world’s first Culture and Economic Strategist? More on that in a minute, I’m also a Community Wealth Storyteller so first a bit of a story about me.
My birth parents named me “Jessica” which means wealthy. (Never call me that btw. If you can’t do Friday, it’s Jess)
Anyway despite wealth literally being in my name, I have suffered a lifetime of poverty and instability. And it’s not like I expected it to be handed to me. I tried really hard to live on my own without depending on a partner or caregiver (and im actually still invisible homeless right now).
I’ve tried so hard to live up to my birthname, I came to view it as a cruel joke from the universe.
Until a few years ago, nearly a year into my homelessness journey,
I saw someone say recently that homelessness happens less because you ran out of money and more because you ran out of people and whew…that hit real close to home.
I began the long process of realising that chasing money as a means of escape is what made me homeless and that it wasn’t money, but people that had saved me over and over again.
I began to think about what wealth really was.
Did you know that of the X types of wealth (depending on which framework you look at) only 25% of them are money or physical assets?
Don’t worry, we will do an entire video on THAT, as well as the real solutions I’ve discovered like Community Wealth Building that, as Neil McInroy will tell you rewire wealth and power and have practical steps.
Neil is awesome.
The point is, wealth is not what you think. People who have reached the highest heights of financial prosperity who have found themselves adrift and unsatisfied know this as well as those of us who have lost everything.
And there are brilliant solutions for our economy from all over the world across hundreds of movements towards a better world. From the Wellbeing Economy to… We’ll look and make hard concepts like systems theory and culture science accessible and applicable. Dive into case studies like HelpBnk, Freewater, Kindred and the growing social economy in Liverpool, Why companies from Bob’s Red Mill in US and John Lewis and the Entertainer in the UK are going employee-owned, the Economics of Influence – how Gary Stevenson grew his channel and spawned Barry’s Economics and what this has to do with the #metoo movement? How Gary and Daniel would have been on the same page had each known about community wealth.
These solutions are everywhere. It’s just that like most homeless people, they’re just not visible.
And even if they are visible they aren’t accessible because academics used these 50 cent words…
But I’m here to change that. As a Culture Economist I take a holistic look at…
People like Gary point at the problems in the system – I show you how we change it.
Gary makes these concepts easy for anyone to understand –
