Open Dialogue // Economics & Experience

We tend to think of an economic system as a macro structure that's “out there” making transactions possible at a global scale. But markets, policies, and institutions also create mico structure, shaping the ways in which we experience time, value, choice, relationships, and even ourselves.

What if much of what we experience as “just how life is” (like constant time pressure or that our productivity determines our worth or the sense that certain ways of living are unrealistic) is patterned by our economic systems?

In this conversation, let's step outside familiar debates about capitalism, socialism, etc., to explore the felt experience of economic life. When do we feel a sense of possibility, and when does it feel constrained? What feels valuable to us and and what's of value that seems to go unseen? When do we feel like participants in a living system, and when do we feel like resources within it?

This conversation will be free-form, which means it might meander into adjacent topics. No need to prepare or bring anything but your curiosity and an open mind.