Melançon Enterprises • a multidivision multinational since 1980

[very disorganized and the tangents need to be re-planted elsewhere but there's good stuff here]

An unabashed Milton Friedman acolyte made the point (a quotation?) that as long as exchanges are freely made between people, the net benefit has to be positive by definition.

Yes-- exactly-- but-- and there is a huge but-- there's little practical difference between a force-coerced exchange and an economic-coerced exchange. Indeed, it's the history and present of inequality to use force to back up the imposition of economic injustice.

Lisa Gansky
http://meshing.it

angel investor, advisor

here because she wrote a book, one of the more interesting business books of the last year- The Mesh

skipped the slide of two rabbits -- 'too long a story'

in nature, waste = food

waste from one system becomes the food or input of another system

what percentage of the day do we use our cars? 8%. [And it's only that high because of the waste of traffic jams!]

delight is contagious (and so is its evil twin)