When thinking about creating a new community, reflect on the unique intersection of existing communities you represent and who else might be in that same intersection.

– Glen Weyl 

This post originally appeared on the Interintellect community blog.

Why do some communities and movements improve society in the long run while others flatline? What can a new, global, and multidisciplinary community like Interintellect learn from movements past and present as we work to improve the quality and impact of the world’s conversations? As a “community of individualists,” we also recognize the importance of diverse, individual contributions and are especially interested in learning how to thrive and cooperate in the resulting world.

To explore these and related topics, we invited Glen Weyl, a name well-known to those working to rethink and rebuild social, political, and technological institutions. One of the world’s leading economists and sociotechnologists, Weyl co-invented groundbreaking systems such as quadratic voting to improve collective decision-making and help societies solve inequality, stagnation, and political instability. Such concerns and possible solutions are explored in his book Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society, published in 2018.

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