conveners: Dave Sanford and Cliff Collard

notetaker: Tom Brown

why do we need jobs if we have sufficient abundance?

people are using 'jobs' in the perjorative sense

right livelihood

what is abundance? having what one needs when one needs it.

how does somebody make a transition from job to meaningful work?

building empathic civilization at a distance through communication.  sleeping, dreaming, unconscious planet is waking up.

what if i don't have a laptop and internet access? i often have to work at an unpleasant job.

chaotic fertility

12th night on eastside

how do you communicate the things you actually need?

occupy in kansas city - tent city with thousands

austin failed to find a lasting solution

abundance vs. distribution of resources

charette process - divide into groups for suggested solutions to a problem.

redefine value.

freedom from coercion

1993 - popular science, jim bell - assassination politics - encrypted anonymous digital currency

the abundance community - peter block

farm robots

small is beautiful - e.f. schumacher

sacred economics - charles eisenstein

waking life - fear or laziness

much more creative when stress is removed from society

the light bulb conspiracy

the problem is not the problem but the way we respond to the problem

can we reclaim the word 'job'?