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-===== To the Youth of 2117 =====+===== To the Youth of 2118 =====
  
-As we look back on the past century, we have much to be satisfied with. Today our planet is slowly returning to health. Humans have adjusted to a more extreme and chaotic climate. We have achieved a sustainable exchange with the rest of nature, we eat, we live in relative safety, we (mostly) get along with each other. In the process of restoring the environment,​ we have learned to cooperate and live together peacefully, respecting other people, other species, other orders. There is a rough equality among us across the planet. No one piles up riches and no one starves.+//​[[the-grid|Then,​ Now, and How]]// looks back on the past century ​from the vantage point of 2118. We have much to be satisfied with. Today our planet is slowly returning to health. Humans have adjusted to a more extreme and chaotic climate. We have achieved a sustainable exchange with the rest of nature, we eat, we live in relative safety, we (mostly) get along with each other. In the process of restoring the environment,​ we have learned to cooperate and live together peacefully, respecting other people, other species, other orders. There is a rough equality among us across the planet. No one piles up riches and no one starves.
  
 We rule ourselves through autonomous councils, assemblies and associations,​ federated at local, regional and planetary levels. The only absolutes are human rights and the protection of nature. Among us there are as many different ways of organizing ​ work and daily life as there are cultural traditions, political doctrines and even temperaments. People who are dissatisfied in one agricultural community or urban society have only to go work and live in another, more to their taste, and nowadays many people change place often, simply out of a love of adventure and to see the world. ​ We rule ourselves through autonomous councils, assemblies and associations,​ federated at local, regional and planetary levels. The only absolutes are human rights and the protection of nature. Among us there are as many different ways of organizing ​ work and daily life as there are cultural traditions, political doctrines and even temperaments. People who are dissatisfied in one agricultural community or urban society have only to go work and live in another, more to their taste, and nowadays many people change place often, simply out of a love of adventure and to see the world. ​
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 Many businesses and workplaces were simply abandoned by their bankrupt owners, who were unable to pay the taxes owing on their property. This proved to be an opportunity for their unemployed former workforce. Often employees, although technically out of work, would get together to protect the machinery and equipment of ‘their’ workplace from vandals or the scrap-dealer,​ in the hope of better times. Others would pass by to meet and discuss. Many experienced workers felt they knew how to run the operation as well as if not better than the bosses, who never got their hands dirty. Why not try? Better than hanging around feeling useless. ​ Many businesses and workplaces were simply abandoned by their bankrupt owners, who were unable to pay the taxes owing on their property. This proved to be an opportunity for their unemployed former workforce. Often employees, although technically out of work, would get together to protect the machinery and equipment of ‘their’ workplace from vandals or the scrap-dealer,​ in the hope of better times. Others would pass by to meet and discuss. Many experienced workers felt they knew how to run the operation as well as if not better than the bosses, who never got their hands dirty. Why not try? Better than hanging around feeling useless. ​
  
-And so, bit by bit, workplaced by workplace, town by town and country by country, wherever the deepening crisis had created similar conditions, workers got together and organised occupations,​ takeovers, tax-auction buyouts and went back to work -- this time for themseves – and their customers. ​ And in many cases, their customers were other worker-run enterprises:​ self-organised workers in garment factories became the customers of workers in a textile cooperative,​ whose customers were transportation workers in need of clothes who could deliver the textiles. Out of acts of individual barter, more complex networks of non-commercial exchange and distribution developed. ​+And so, bit by bit, workplaced by workplace, town by town and country by country, wherever the deepening crisis had created similar conditions, workers got together and organised occupations,​ takeovers, tax-auction buyouts and went back to work -- this time for themseves – and their customers. ​ And in many cases, their customers were other worker-run enterprises:​ self-organised workers in garment factories became the customers of workers in a textile cooperative,​ whose customers were transportation workers in need of clothes who could deliver the textiles. Out of acts of individual barter, more complex networks of non-commercial exchange and distribution developed. 
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 +**[[textbook|How to Use This History]]**
  
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