[Themaintainers] A Maintainers Response to Abundance?

[Danny Spitzberg]

For what it's worth, and perhaps it helps inform a maintainer-themed
response, Reboot did a roundup of over a dozen perspectives on the
abundance agenda. See https://joinreboot.org/p/abundance for the full list
and commentary. Personally, I thought that the most compelling review was
Matt Bruenig's- not listed in Reboot, unfortunately. See that one at
https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/the-abundance-agenda/

On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 7:51 AM Nathan Proctor <nproctor at pirg.org> wrote:

> 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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