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Life Beyond (Meta's) Social Media - Newsletter 3 Extract

 


How Would The Productive Pessimist Function Without the Internet?
. We would begin by running free-to-attend business and ‘thought explosion’ networking sessions in person.

. We would extend that to running in-person workshops and facilitated course sessions in the same venues (though at different times.)

. We would prioritise print publishing - articles in magazines, newspaper columns, a printed version of this newsletter.

. We would reach out to potential clients via vintage postcards - giving them something beautiful and valuable along with our message.


How Would The Productive Pessimist Function Without Money?
The answer to that question very much depends on what “without money” means - if it’s just “with no income” - well, that’s a very familiar place for us as a young business run by a team where everyone has work-impacting disabilities.

If the situation were that every country’s economies had collapsed simultaneously, so money in the form we’re most familiar with it was universally worthless, the first consideration is “Do businesses and local authorities accept and recognise that this is what has happened? Or is it still required to pay utility bills, council tax, purchase groceries?”

In the former situation, no one is expecting money, and a new system of currency would rapidly arise - we would just have to pay attention to what that new system settled into being.

In the latter situation, however, we don’t have money - presumably, most people don’t have money - but certain institutions still expect money as payment for goods and services.  We would initially be looking for accommodation from which we could run courses and workshops, whilst having our team live on-site rent free, in exchange for maintenance and upkeep of the venue.  We’d then need to identify appropriate skill swaps to offer printers and marketing firms. People would bring practical things - tools, food, hygiene products, clothing, cleaning products - or their own skillsets, as payment for our courses and workshops.  

We’d do more ad-hoc spoken presentations, probably in open spaces.

What about you? How would you run your business without the internet, and without money?  Drop us an email with your answer: theproductivepessimist@yahoo.com You can also email us to subscribe to our full weekly newsletter. E: theproductivepessimist@yahoo.com






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