Thread by @swardley

Create a futures market offsetting cabon emissions against future trees, I'll create collaterized carbon obligations and synthetic swaps on top. Run it all on blockchain and make us a fortune!

Saving the planet is not guaranteed, survivability make go up as well as down ->

https://twitter.com/ofinker/status/1376142524838973445

Of course, I'm only saying this in jest.

In practice, this market will already exist.

In our current system the solutions to problems caused by transactions are always ... more transactions.

Inequality ... let's have philanthropy

Climate change ... let's have carbon offsets and a carbon market

At no point do we go ... maybe the transactions ARE the problem.

It shows a remarkable lack of ingenuity, challenge and intellect that the solution to problems caused by our current "solution" is always more of the same "solution".

X : Are you communist?
Me : No. I'm neither a capitalist nor a communist. I take a different path. I view those methods as tools and I firmly believe in a rather novel concept known as "engaging the brain".

X : I don't understand.
Me : The economic tools are our disposal vary in terms of usefulness depending upon the context and how evolved something is ... no such thing as one size fits all.

i.e. think about the landscape, think about how evolved the components are and apply appropriate methods. Make a choice about what method is most suited ...

It's the same with purchasing, with project management and with finance.

Don't simply adopt a "one size fits all" and ignore context.

The make believe land of the one size fits all magic method is the haunt of management consultants and their trademarked / licensed / patent protected schemes. These are all illusions of capability which trade effectiveness for simplicity.

But far worse than this, they deprive their users of the blessing of thought ... they encourage you to simply apply the method and when it goes wrong they tell you that "you applied it in the wrong way or you used the wrong bits, here have a training course" etc.

X : How do you know if a map is right?
Me : All maps are imperfect and as models they are all wrong. No such thing as a right map. Despite this they are useful in allowing us to expose and challenge assumptions, to create a common understanding and apply thought to a space ...

... hence maps don't tell you what to do. They are simply guides to enable that discussion, to help us think about a space and to embrace and manage the uncertainty that exists.

We live in a world dominated by stories and story tellers that demand your submission to their truth and rob most people of the ability to think, to challenge and to question.