Name. It might be a placeholder name. Or the people might replace it if they embrace it. I wouldn’t like Skeltonism though…
It might mean un-ism – because it is less fixed and more anarchic than communism and capitalism.
Or it might mean unified-ism, because it contains aspects of socialism, capitalism and anarchy.
A good summary of ten economic “isms” is here, from a magazine that is crazy about capitalism.
I don’t even know how to pronounce it. But it will do for now.
Purpose. A place for news and ideas and teasers for the book I am working on – The Future Is Upside Down: The Reversal of Capitalism in a Declining World. I am trying to create a replacement for capitalism in a future of negative growth, primarily due to population decline from 2050 onwards. And how to transition. It is no small challenge!
About Rob. Rob Skelton is a catastrophe futurist.
He has written about the ancient Mayan calendar, the upcoming failure of antibiotics, the idea we live in a simulation, and the demise of capitalism in a world which has fewer and fewer people.