[Themaintainers] A Maintainers Response to Abundance?

[Nathan Proctor]

Thanks Camile!

There are definitely a lot of people commenting on the Abundance agenda. I
think there are few reasons why discussing it has such energy -- from
people who like the premise, people who very much do not like it, and
everywhere in between. I think the main reason the book is garnering so
much discussion is because the book is pitching a large-scale social
project at a time where there is clearly the opportunity to present a new
large-scale social project. (It also has popular ideas people will be drawn
to, at a time when many aspiring leaders are looking for popular ideas,
while ignoring other valid critiques which prompts equally strong responses
from people who are pushing society to take on other visions).

One of the book's clear oversights is the very insight which founded the
Maintainers: we as a society fetishize the new and shiny, when our real
problems would be better solved by figuring out how to better maintain what
we've already built out.

I'd love to work with someone on a piece which essentially lays out the
core case of the Maintainers, and how abundance might be better found in
better managing our infrastructure, and investing in the people who keep
everything going.

Any takers?

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM Camille E. Acey <connect at camilleacey.com>
wrote:

> *(Sharing to keep the conversation going with Nathan Proctor and the
> greater community)*
>
> Do we want to send out a The Maintainers response to Klein and Thompson's
> new book *Abundance*
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_(Klein_and_Thompson_book)>?
>
> It has definitely been dunked on a lot, but not yet (as far as I know)
> from a maintenance perspective.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Yours in the end,
>
> Camille
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