The Elysian, Volume I

For the first three years of my newsletter, before I printed my work into pamphlets, I published each year of my work into collectable print volumes with gold foil covers for my paid subscribers at the premium tier. The print edition was just for them, but the e-book is still available as an EPUB.

Here are the essays included in the first edition:

Introduction
Foreword by Austin Tindle

Philosophy

• Humanism is my religion now

• I’m so over dead French writers

• We don’t need our political ideologies anymore

• The Ugliness of the problem sticks to the solution by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

Government

• Opening our borders will solve just about everything

• What if countries had to compete for citizens?

• What if countries acted more like companies?

• What if democracy has just gotten too big? by Austin Tindle

• Remote work could solve global poverty

Economy

• We don’t need to “degrow” the economy

• We need to grow our economy to advance humanity

• This could be our economy in the year 2100

Capitalism

• A brief history of capitalism (& socialism & communism)

• What is the point of profit?

• What if it’s not cool to be a bad capitalist anymore?

• Allow me to get rich and I will save the world by Claudia Befu Ibarra

• An alternative to “tax the rich”

• What happens when we tax billionaires by 90% by Thom Hartmann

• What happens when we tax corporations by 50% by Thom Hartmann

Work & leisure

• Automation has already taken our jobs

• Are 20-hour workweeks on their way?

• Is your company wasting your time?

• Is it for work or for pleasure?

• “If you were rich would you fold laundry?” by Rachel Katz

• “Is hard work virtuous” by Étienne Fortier-Dubois

• Economic possibilities for our grandchildren (re-visited)

• Yes, the future should be analog

• Will we return to craftwork?

Culture

• Will we still have culture in the future?

• We don’t need to colonize the world anymore

• What if women were in charge?

Health

• We need to disrupt the food industry

• We won’t need doctors in the future

• Electric vehicles are not the future (walking is)

• Yes, we will increase our lifespan with David Gobel

Acknowledgments