well, it depends on the culture of the commune but let’s skip this and i’ll just focus on commune as a tool
if it’s used as a tool for escapism, good but it will never scale and ‘‘everyone should be in one’’ it’s just impossible
if, like i dream, it’s used as a tool to offload work of a group of people to allow them to make better politics because being much more resilient to capital swings, cool af u.u
obviously it’s not binary and what i described it’s not even a model with 2 opposites, but i wanted to focus on these cases
weird in betweens like project kamp are very interesting but I still think they focus too much on the being indipendent rather than using the commune as a tool for “greater” scope.
















It costed nothing to say Kenya instead of Africa and Solar power revolution instead of solarpunk
While the funds pour in, yes, startup are so nice, let’s see this fully integrated vertical stack with sensor for remote shut down how evolves with time…
The same article could be done with the fediverse “solarpunk is already happening on the internet” or whatever good thing is happening in the world
Sorry I just feel like the author is sugar coating a startup, a bit de-politicizing solarpunk and looking down on Africa complexity e_e
Still an interesting read