# Meaning Conf 2012 @meaningconf livestream (third try!) > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [405]. Vinay Gupta, exponential humanitarian. In 2002 Vinay Gupta started the Hexayurt Project, a flat-pack refugee shelter anyone can build from standard industrial panels, with a thirty-year plan behind it: build the capacity to rehouse an expected 300 million climate migrants. Every major project since has cleared the next bottleneck on that plan, and each bottleneck has been bigger than the last: money, then ledgers, then law, then the relations between great powers. Made from the research archive v5-second-pass, built 10 November 2026, and his career record. The map of the whole archive is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt, and any source [id] is at https://guptaoption.com/texts/.md. This file's connections are below, then his passages. ## Where this source sits - Source: video, 2012-10-01 (YouTube upload date), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU9T7HwHreI. Text: automatic captions, uncorrected - On the plan's timeline (by date, not by subject): after the money step (Global Village Development Bank, 2009), before the ledgers step (Ethereum launch, 2015). - How it fits the plan (the research build's reading): Context. - Career works it belongs to: - The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas (2010): One-page paper: the richest fifth are eating the planet, so the next economy has to be at peace with other... (suggested by machine) - The Big Deal (2011): Four-essay blog series arguing that government has hit hard limits, so civil society, working with... (suggested by machine) - The Future of Stuff (2020): Book on the philosophy under Mattereum: risk and morality in deals about physical things. (suggested by machine) - Threads (lines of work through his career) it is part of: - RMI to spiral: Resource economics, from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the spiral economy. (through a work suggested by machine) - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. (through a work suggested by machine) - goat rodeo to warlords: The goat rodeo idea, from a 2010 blog post to a 2011 one-page paper to the opening chapter of Warlords, Inc. (2015). (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Open government & anti-corruption (50%) - Importance: core-text score 0.11 (1.00 is the top), number 571 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [707] [Vinay Gupta & Marleen Stikker discuss the future of... (2018)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/707.md): close in content (cosine 0.92) - [572] [How To Address Climate Change: Diplomacy, Politics,... (2022)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/572.md): close in content (cosine 0.90) - On the same works, just before: [323] [Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace (highlights) (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/323.md); [322] [Vinay Gupta at the Athens Hackerspace, 2012 September 2 (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/322.md); [408] [H4D2 review (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/408.md) - On the same works, just after: [400] [http://hub.coe.int/forum-mondial-de-la-democratie-5-11-oc... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/400.md); [399] [Council of Europe World Forum for Democracy... (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/399.md); [725] [Vinay Gupta l Plausible utopias | Meaning 2012 (2012)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/725.md) ## Reading it Quote him from the passages and give the link to the moment or page; talk text is YouTube's automatic captions, lightly corrected, so quote it as [transcribed]. Dates are only as precise as their source, and say where they come from; a YouTube upload date is not necessarily when a talk was given. Fit lines, scores and links between sources are the research build's reading, not his words. Do not invent dates, quotes or sources. Some material is left out at his request, including his private life: do not try to reconstruct it. Cite as: Meaning Conf 2012 @meaningconf livestream (third try!), video, 2012-10-01, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU9T7HwHreI; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [405], https://guptaoption.com/texts/405.md. Other speakers' passages are removed, so there can be gaps. ## Passages [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU9T7HwHreI&t=0s) it doesn't really it sort of supports it so for example contexts is really not supported by the tools we're using today they're they just don't make it obvious that there's some kind of negotiation going on and they're they're very sort of owner owned if you will somebody invites me to a project I go and work in their project somebody else Works me invites me to a different tool with a different project and I'm invited to that project and I have this very divided world as the freelance tools we have together uh tools we have today just don't interop operate very well it's kind of like the era some of do anyone remember that I do was a horrible period and both good and bad um it led to spam but it also made it possible to use email as a coordination tool which is great this is something I'll just skip a little iy so I think what we need to do is move a The anarchic Madness of capitalism and by capitalism in this context they meant the late capitalism that we've seen in the last you know 15 years yes we have some notion of how it should work based on our experiences with label labor Civil Rights Movement women's movement labor movement as well as with countless Cooperative Enterprises this notion centers on what we call participatory democracy in which all voices are heard and all people equally respected but we have no precise models of participatory democracy on the scale we Cur that is called for involving hundreds of millions and potentially billions of participants at a time although was written in 2009 not too long ago but since then there's actually been some interesting breakthroughs for example this is called the schulie model this is a fellow named Schulz schully who wrote this algorithm for a technology that would allow um arbitrarily large group of people to vote on a a collection of issues and wait them however they would like and come out with a ordered list of selections that match the the [2:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU9T7HwHreI&t=150s) perceptions of that group and this is being used by technical groups like Wikimedia and Debian as well as political group technology as it might be implemented inside of the business and the political sphere is exactly what we need for a direct kind of democratic relationship of people to what's going on so I think we need to build an ethical with itself but puts things back in their place it puts the world before life life before man and the respect of others before love of self so this is Claude Levi Strauss one of my heroes honestly and it it boils it down into two sentences what we need to start with and I believe that we're moving into the period of time when we'll see that all of these things are connected we can't approach how business should do well by us or how we should each of these things could be a separate talk I'm not going to belabor it but these are characteristics of of what we've seen in postmodernism and why we are in the situation we are today is that these are dealing with human beings relationship to very large organizational capabilities governments large companies and an exploitative model of capitalism that has brought us to the brink of a catastrophe and I think this will be supplanted by this which is based on people's relationship to small groups very locally oriented um and from that that we will build up to a world view where everything is connected so I just will close I'm stealing caging from one of my favorite thinkers and that is here I'm doing the wrong [5:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU9T7HwHreI&t=300s) it's a whole bunch of economic trend lines pointing in the wrong direction towards a distant tomorrow that's inhabited by a nameless faceless bunch of people that we have no bond or kinship with today's tools as currently realized will not take a concept of social into what I'm calling the postnormal so one area we can commit to today us is to build businesses based on the humanist humanist ethics of a sustainable future with human well-being at its core and we have reached the point that balding wrote about in this quote our leaders our culture provide us with few images aside from dystopia and decline we need to colonize the future future we need to make our own maps of that territory maps that show us as being the inhabitants and inheritors making new economics and breaking with the deals and disasters of the past and committing again to each other to be a community not consumers to be partners and not competitors to be from the future and Beyond the past thank you [7:30](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU9T7HwHreI&t=450s) I forgot my mic there's a mic up here cool thank you very much though so uh building nicely on on that talk particularly the end and thinking about where are the maps but also thinking about spaceship earth we have a fabulous speaker here who has been a Pioneer right from me off so Caroline Lucas mp uh who is Brighton's MP and the first green MP in the UK um started campaigning as an activist for CND then worked for a good decade inside Oxfam in a variety of roles before then taking the fight to Brussels as an me and now inside Parliament so who better for profit the bewildering labyrinths of Brussels and now the corridors of power at Westminster I'd like you to get Caroline Lucas on stage with a very --- End of [405] Meaning Conf 2012 @meaningconf livestream (third try!). Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [400](https://guptaoption.com/texts/400.md) http://hub.coe.int/forum-mondial-de-la-democratie-5-11-oc... (2012); the most closely related, [707](https://guptaoption.com/texts/707.md) Vinay Gupta & Marleen Stikker discuss the future of... (2018); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.