The future of our economy through the eyes of art

C20 x KNDR on the role of art in the transition to Capitalism 2.0

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We have produced our exhibition in Amsterdam, where, together with local artists, I will have explored the three core themes. Check what I had to say during the opening.

From competing to collaborating

Competition has brought us far. It seems to be everywhere we look: matter vs. antimatter, the evolution of species, and now — our economy.

However, Competition as a way of being has its limits: this exhausting race is grinding us down and wearing out our planet.

Can open Collaboration work as an alternative strategy that profoundly changes how we create true economic value, resetting the way we look at ourselves and our relationships with others?

From forced action to free action

We thought we have to persevere and just do it. We pushed hard towards goals set from the outside — not from within. We have forgotten about our own intrinsic motivation and agency. Now it seems that a lot of us are lost and tired forcing ourselves down a path no one really wants to be treading.

Who said that opressive ways of growing and creating value are the only way? Can a good place really be reached through force?

Could a free, unconstrained, creative power that every one of us has within be the source of a superior outcome?

From individual to shared ownership

We enshrined shareholders’ value and worshipped the need to maximize it. We saw the destructive side of the power of greed and tried to tame it with e.g. CSR and failed. However, if an individual’s greed is all that drives us and all we know, the end-result is predetermined — it is an ever-diverging societal and economic conflict that leads to an eventual collapse.

How can we give the power of creation, data, and attention, back to the people? How can we progressively and equitably share the ownership of economic goods with their original owners?

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