Dear Dervish,
I almost fully agree with your cogent analysis of the present metacrisis, and what the solution to it is.
As you say:
< Activities such as ecological restoration, community care, local food systems, open-source innovation, education, knowledge stewardship, and civic infrastructure may become economically important not because markets naturally reward them, but because societies cannot remain stable without them. Perhaps the deepest challenge of our era is that the old value-form was designed for an industrial economy where labor sat at the center of production. We are gradually entering a world where energy, compute, automation, and networks occupy that position instead. If that transition continues, then the contributory economy may not be a utopian alternative. It may become a practical necessity for maintaining social cohesion in a system where traditional labor is no longer the primary source of value creation. >
Where I differ is that I see contribution as an extension of labor. Commodity labor, which was an alienation of human labor which is a co-construction of the universe and has salvific value (see Benjamin Suriano), become contributory labor (which can be extended through participation of the living web and recognize the value of geosphere resources as well). In an age of AI, human contributory labor becomes orchestration. Not as a privilege, but as a duty. AI cannot replace our ethical duties.
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