“Companies are already drawing the contours of a new economy and a new relationship with people and living things, still vague.”

hasAs politics confronts the mistrust of a growing proportion of public opinion, our economic and social models have developed new, more efficient channels for public action. The first is simply the youth, whose early responsibility echoes opportunities for action that no one else has had before. Those generations born since the 2000s share the horizon that they no longer have the assurance that they can live or survive on Earth after 2050. This horizon gives them strength, determination and, sometimes, radicality that previous generations criticize or reject. , perhaps for fear of endorsing the deadly legacy they leave behind.

A second channel of public action is found in a growing number of companies, whether capitalist, cooperative, or association. Because here remains the opportunity to try everything possible at the human level, to develop our models, to free ourselves from what blocks these transformations when they are attempted at the political level. These transformations are technological, logistical, agronomic, energy, but also organizational, social, financial. They are already sketching, still vaguely, a new economy and a new relationship with people and living things.

Things that seemed impossible to us are happening, still disorderly and uneven, but without the possibility of going back. Many company and association leaders observe daily the speed and depth of changes taking place in their markets and teams, especially with the impetus of new generations, which impose on our organizations a new relationship with time, decision-making and work. This is how a new economy emerges, an economy that will begin to define the model from man rather than starting from the model for man to adapt to it.

Speed ​​and imbalance

This economy is based on the premise that everything that contributes to its functioning must directly or indirectly contribute to the achievement of human well-being and respect for the living. Ultimately, this may be a simple definition of human economics.

Yet, while the definition is simple, the implications are many and profound. This economy should be based on two principles: balanced distribution (of wealth, decision-making or time); Slowing down of rhythms (production, work, consumption and production).