Not-for-profit businesses prioritise people and planet, not shareholders. This policy ensures they become the rule and not the exception.
Not-for-profit businesses prioritise people and planet, not shareholders. This policy ensures they become the rule and not the exception.
Remember: Policy instruments are the means by which governments can achieve the degrowth goals/objectives we urgently need!
💡 Translation: Let’s make not-for-profits the new normal.
🏛 Tax incentives, funding, and legal support for cooperatives and social enterprises.
🤝 Make not-for-profit structures the default, not just an alternative.
🏗 Give cooperatives preference in public sector contracts.
💡 Translation: Let’s bring back DIY, craftsmanship, and mutual aid.
🔨 Support artisan, craft, and hand-tool production.
💻 Fund hackerspaces, makerspaces, and creative studios for local innovation.
🤝 Extend public subsidies to mutual aid-based production.
💡 Translation: Billionaire-owned monopolies are not the answer—small, community-based businesses are.
🏪 Encourage hobby enterprises, small businesses, and social enterprises over corporate giants.
💡 Translation: Open knowledge, open-source design, and local production should be the norm.
🛠 Promote digital commons, creative commons licenses, and open-source manufacturing.
🌍 Support “design global, manufacture local” models for sustainable production.
💥 Business models should be cooperative, ethical, and democratic—not profit-obsessed.
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