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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Our lives are led by unseen ideas, and financial maximization is the largest among them all.
Chapter 3: Believing financial maximization is the only rational choice has produced a pervasive climate of greed and widespread distrust.
Chapter 4: Financial maximization has rendered everything identical today.
Chapter 5: Financial maximization makes the rich richer, and everyone else bears the consequences too.
Chapter 6: Money isn’t a very reliable gauge of human happiness and fulfillment.
Chapter 7: Bentoism helps us take rational decisions that aren’t driven by money alone today.
Chapter 8: When we follow values beyond money’s pull, we finally begin to see the wider picture more clearly.
Chapter 9: Altering our value spectrum will require some time.
Description
This Could Be Our Future (2019) is a manifesto for a better tomorrow – a future world that isn’t ruled solely by money, but by all forms of value that humanity produces. Former Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler explains how our modern obsession with “financial maximization” has led society astray – bankrupting institutions, stifling innovation, and starving creativity – and what we can do to adjust our course.
Who Should Listen
- Critical capitalists and suspicious socialists
- Entrepreneurs and business owners ready to make a difference
- Anyone who suspects that there is more to life than money