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Can we build a society that looks beyond money? A world focused on the values that make life worth living?

Yancey Strickler, the co-founder of Kickstarter, argues that Western society is trapped by three assumptions: 1) That the point of life is to maximize your self-interest and wealth, 2) That we’re individuals trapped in an adversarial world, and 3) That this is natural and inevitable. These ideas separate us, keep us powerless and limit our imagination for the future. Is it time we replace them with something new?

In this conversation, Yancey discussed how we got here and how we can change course. While the pursuit of wealth has produced innovation and prosperity, it also established an implicit belief that the right choice in every decision is whichever option makes the most money. The answer isn’t to get rid of money; it’s to expand our concept of value. By assigning rational value to other values besides money – things like community, purpose and sustainability – we can refocus our energies to build a society that’s generous, fair, and ready for the future. By recalibrating our definition of value, a world of scarcity can become a world of abundance.