# The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas > One source from the archive of Vinay Gupta's work at guptaoption.com, as plain text for AI agents: [828]. 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: document (PDF), 2010 (year of the work, not of publication), https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf. Text: document text - 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): Economic premise of the plan: meet everyone's needs inside planetary limits. - 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... - A little insight into the Gupta Doctrine (2014): His "very conservative vision" for global change: six or maybe eight machines everyone on earth should... (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. - environment / green capitalism: Green economics: from oil efficiency to markets for facts about products. (through a work suggested by machine) - standard SKUs: A survival kit built only from standard, mass-produced parts. (through a work suggested by machine) - Topics: Rural poverty & development infrastructure (100%) - Distinctive terms here, against the whole archive: The New Economy (1 here; 5 sources in all, earliest dated 2010); Frontier (2 here; 35 sources in all, earliest dated 2006) - The earliest dated source in this archive for (undated sources may be earlier): The New Economy - Importance: core-text score 0.44 (1.00 is the top), number 140 of the 729 sources it scored, the research build's measure of substance, importance and innovation - Related sources: - [91] [The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md): same career work: The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas - [752] [Vinay Gupta: The Cities That Will Walk Away (2019)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/752.md): close in content (cosine 0.87) - On the same works, just before: [61] [Ending Poverty With Open Hardware | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/61.md); [65] [Leashless – a manifesto about freedom | The Bucky-Gandhi... (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/65.md); [187] [Six Ways To Die workshops (2009)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/187.md) - On the same works, just after: [38] [Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md); [128] [Black Elephants & Skull Jackets: A Conversation with... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/128.md); [91] [The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the... (2010)](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.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: The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas, document, 2010, https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf; in Vinay Gupta's archive at guptaoption.com, source [828], https://guptaoption.com/texts/828.md. ## Passages [passage 1](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf) The New Economyout of money, out of time, but not out of ideas Sixty million people, 1% of the human population, die every year. In most years, around a third of those people died early because they are poor. There are three directions a desperate human being can point their aggressive desire to improve their situation. The first is inter-species competition. The aggression is pointed at an animal or a plant, and we eat it or turn its skin into our clothes, or otherwise exploit it in a way that benefits us. A second option is intra-species competition where we screw over our brothers for the promotion or con somebody in a deal, getting rich at their expense. Only the third kind of aggression is remotely beneficial: we can explore, discover, create and grow. These responses are fundamentally transcendent: in changing either ourselves or the situation, we have competed with the unknown, and won. The unknown is infinite and unmanifest, and if we can solve our problems at the expense of making the unknown into the known, we have not depleted a scarce resource at all! We are out of natural resources. The richest 20% of the human race are eating the rest of the planet out of house and home, often at gunpoint. Their competition with other species and other humans is total. Our competition, because if you can read this, you are like in that fifth. So we must withdraw our claws and fangs, and stop destroying the other species we share the world with, and on each other. I want to note that to eat chicken is to dine on a chicken, but not to dine on the very fact there are chickens in the world. We prey on the natural world not just one individual at a time, but many species at a time fall to our scythe. What can grow back from the natural world is a harvest. What cannot is war. We are at war with the other species of the earth, we destroy their habitat, we destroy what allows them to exist as species - their historical continuity into the future, the sum of all of their children’s children - and in doing so we make war upon the earth itself. The new economy must stop this war. It must be an economy of peace not only with each other, but peace with the planet. But this means that we must provide for all desperate human beings in a way which does not force them to make war upon the land or upon other humans. We are here until there is a high frontier and space opens space to unlimited expansion. What is it then to expand into the unknown to provide for all of our needs? It is science, it is engineering of the benign kind, permaculture and farming that supports the diversity of life upon the earth, and all other useful things which have clean inputs and non-destructive outputs. Here is [passage 2](https://files.howtolivewiki.com/in_a_page/the_new_economy.pdf) frontier and space opens space to unlimited expansion. What is it then to expand into the unknown to provide for all of our needs? It is science, it is engineering of the benign kind, permaculture and farming that supports the diversity of life upon the earth, and all other useful things which have clean inputs and non-destructive outputs. Here is the hard part: with the exception of cheap renewable electricity, you will be poorer in an economy which is not based on plunder. But we will all be richer, together. --- End of [828] The New Economy: out of money, out of time, but not out of ideas. Its connections are at the top of this file; the map is https://guptaoption.com/llms.txt. Read next: next on the same works, [38](https://guptaoption.com/texts/38.md) Hexayurt Country: The Hexayurt Project plan for relief... (2010); the most closely related, [91](https://guptaoption.com/texts/91.md) The imperialists of the future are imperialists of the... (2010); his whole career in one file, https://guptaoption.com/story.md.