{"id":4540,"date":"2021-10-24T01:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T22:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/?p=4540"},"modified":"2022-09-27T16:10:40","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T13:10:40","slug":"no-bosses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metacpc.org\/en\/no-bosses\/","title":{"rendered":"A review of Michael Albert’s ‘No Bosses’ by Bertrand Bob Guevara"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No Bosses? I\u2019m In<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

by Bertrand Bob Guevara<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I have seen the future of economics and it is no fucking bosses. No profits. No markets. No hierarchical division of labor. In this future, people collectively, freely, justly, rationally produce for one another. Workers and consumers minimize waste, maximize human fulfillment, and escape class division. There is equity for all, dignity for all. Everyone lives in accord with nature. We become our most caring thoughtful selves, moved by feelings of love. The muse wakes us all. Who wouldn\u2019t want no more crazy sorrow? No more cruel leaders or leaders who turn cruel? Many corporate fools and fanatics wouldn\u2019t want that. Many masters of war wouldn\u2019t want that. Too bad for them. I am for new economics for a better world. What about you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, you are probably for new economics too. Why else would you read this review? No more grey flannel bosses. No more blood drenched profits. No more malicious markets. But wipe away bosses, profits, markets, and corporations, and what\u2019s left? A humungous vacuum. Nature abhors that. So, what would fill it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When movements overcome the past, sometimes they get too much nothing. They kick up noise and turmoil. The dust settles. They are back where they came from. Other times when movements overcome the past, they cause big change. The dust settles. They suffer a new boss in place of the old boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book, No Bosses, A New Economy for a Better World<\/em><\/a> describes how movements might escape class rule smartly, equitably, sustainably, and with dignity for all. No Bosses\u2019<\/em> introduction savages existing relations. Its opening chapter sets out positive values to use to orient and judge economics. Subsequent chapters answer who owns what, who decides what, who does what, who earns what, and who allocates what. They propose new institutions wherein we decide our own lives with equity, solidarity, and dignity for all. Finally, two concluding chapters discuss winning a new economy and offer a bit of personal and social context for the whole perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Bosses<\/em> doesn\u2019t paint a full picture of future daily life. It doesn\u2019t speculate on second, third, or fourth order details. It doesn\u2019t dictate how long future people will choose to work each day, precisely how they will conduct their personal relations, or even what they will individually or collectively consume. No Bosses<\/em><\/a> doesn\u2019t conjure up electric car designs. It doesn\u2019t celebrate bio chemically improved health care. It doesn\u2019t predict much less dictate contingent future circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Bosses<\/a>\u2019<\/em> agenda is instead simple and even elegant. Passionate indignation pursuing truth. Perceive a world where people freely decide and implement their own life choices with no bosses who severely impose inequality, enforce anti-sociality, and destroy the very planet our lives depend on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So what new features does No Bosses<\/em> propose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n