Work the index
The list below is deliberately dense: scan dates, titles, and excerpts quickly, then open the essay that catches the thread.
Twenty-four articles per page keep the archive moving without making each card compete for attention.
Category: 10,000 People Economy
Roadmap
Read with direction.
Use this category as a focused corridor, then widen the map when a related question starts pulling you into another part of the archive.
Start with foundations
When you want the personal and philosophical base of the archive, begin with the Theory of the World essays.
Cross the boundary
Most useful ideas do not stay in one lane. Move sideways when a theme needs another lens.
Return to the whole
Step out of this category when you want the full field rather than one territory.
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A Field Test Designed to Fail Honestly
A serious pilot must measure the full causal chain, look for harm, decide failure rules in advance and publish the null result.
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Accounting for a Community Economy
Supply-and-use and physical accounts prevent double counting and show whether money, materials, infrastructure and demand tell one consistent story.
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What South Africa Can Borrow Without Copying
International examples become useful when South Africa extracts mechanisms, names local actors and allows field evidence to reject the adaptation.
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Seventeen Communities Is a Test, Not a Magic Number
Federation creates resilience only when communities diversify real dependencies and share capabilities that improve performance or reduce risk.
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A Community Finance Vehicle Is Not Automatically a Bank
A community finance vehicle must match its legal powers, funding base, lending conduct, risk controls and productive purpose.
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Training Should Be Part of Production
Training closes the experience gap when paid work, structured learning, mentoring, assessment and progression form one productive pathway.
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The Customer Comes Before the Job Count
Employment becomes defensible when a customer or authorised public purpose supports the output, collections, wages and working-capital cycle.
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When Money Circulates but the Economy Remains Dependent
Local spending can support nearby firms while production, essential supplies and the first source of income remain externally dependent.
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A Job List Is Not an Economy
A list of useful occupations becomes an economy only when products, customers, inputs, cash flow and governing institutions connect.
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Ten Thousand Residents, Not Ten Thousand Jobs
The 10,000 People Economy begins with a resident population, then claims only the work supported by demand, finance and evidence.