A more generous future
24th Jun 2020, 4pm
Nesta talks to… Yancey Strickler
About the event
Can we build a society that looks beyond money? A world focused on the values that make life worth living?
Yancey Strickler, the cofounder of Kickstarter argues that Western society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) That the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) That we’re individuals trapped in an adversarial world, and 3) That this is natural and inevitable. These ideas separate us, keep us powerless, and limit our imagination for the future. Is it time we replace them with something new?
In this conversation, Yancey will discuss how we got here, and how we change course. While the pursuit of wealth has produced innovation and prosperity, it also established an implicit belief that the right choice in every decision is whichever option makes the most money. The answer isn’t to get rid of money; it’s to expand our concept of value. By assigning rational value to other values besides money–things like community, purpose, and sustainability–we can refocus our energies to build a society that’s generous, fair, and ready for the future. By re-calibrating our definition of value, a world of scarcity can become a world of abundance.
Yancey Strickler is a writer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, author of This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World (Viking), and the creator of Bentoism. Yancey is a Distinguished Fellow at the Drucker Institute and has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People.
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