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Essays from Generation Y, or Millennials, around the globe on what it’s like for them to try to make it in the real world after graduation.

America stands at a precipice; limitless consumption, reckless economics, and disregard for the environment have put the country on a collision course with disaster. It’s up to a younger generation to rebuild according to new forms of organization, and Share or Die is a collection of messages from the front lines.

From urban Detroit to central Amsterdam, and from worker co-operatives to nomadic communities, an astonishing variety of recent graduates and twenty-something experimenters are finding (and sharing) their own answers to negotiating the new economic order. Their visions of a shared future include:

·      Collaborative consumption networks instead of private ownership
·      Replacing the corporate ladder with a “lattice lifestyle”
·      Do-it-yourself higher education

As a call-to-action, “share or die” doesn’t only refer to resource depletion, disappearing jobs, or stagnating wages. It refers to social death too, and to finding the commonsense ideas and practices needed to not only merely survive, but also to build a place where it’s worth living. A series of forays into uncharted territory, this graphically rich collection of essays, narratives, and how-tos is an intimate guide to the new economic order and a must-read for anyone attempting to understand what it means to live as part of Generation Y.

“If you know someone who dreams of something bigger than being part of the rat race, please give them this book.” —Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing

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ISBN-13:	9781550925036
Publisher:	New Society Publishers
Publication date:	12/15/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	24 MB
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About the Author

Malcolm Harris is the Life/Art channel editor and a writer at Shareable Magazine. His work has been featured on Alternet, KQED.org, The Los Angeles Free Press, and he is managing editor at The New Inquiry, a criticism site devoted to collecting and promoting the work of young unaffiliated writers.Neal Gorenflo is the co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine (www.shareable.net), a nonprofit online magazine about sharing. A former market researcher, stock analyst, and Fortune 500 strategist, Neal left the corporate world in 2004 to help bring a shareable world to life through Internet startups, grassroots organizing, and a circle of friends committed to the common good. Neal has also worked for the green social network Care2.com and co-organized The Abundance League’s monthly salons about alternative economy in San Francisco.

Malcolm Harris – Brooklyn, NY
Jenna Brager – Washington, DC
Neal Gorenflo – Mountain View, CA
Jean-Yves Huwart – Brussels, Belgium
Samantha Miller – Washington, DC
Sarah Idzik – Chicago, IL
Emi Gennis – Chicago, IL
Nine – Nomad
Robino – Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Hannah Brench – New York, NY
Ryan Gleason – Seattle, WA
Venessa Miemis – New York, NY
Tom Judd – Washington, DC
Mira Luna – San Francisco, CA
Reagan McMahon – Oakland, CA
Astri von Arbin Ahlander – Sweden
Liz Kofman – Los Angeles, CA
Beth Buczynski – Fort Collins, CO
Arianna Davolos – San Francisco, CA
Melissa Welter – San Francisco, CA
Lauren Westerfield – San Diego, CA
Milicent Johnson – San Francisco, CA
Annamarie Pluhar – Boston, MA
Chris Messina – San Francisco, CA
Corbyn Hightower – Sacramento, CA

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Post-College Flow Chart of Misery And Pain - JennA Brager

INTRODUCTION:

Editor’s Preface - Neal Gorenflo
Foreword - Malcolm Harris
The Get Lost Generation - Malcolm Harris

WORK:

The State of Gen Y - Jean-Yves Huwart
Things as Which I’ve Been Asked to Dress:
Life in The Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Sam Miller
Unprepared: From Elite College to The Job Market - Sarah Idzik
Quitter - Emi Gennis
Take It And Leave It: Inside The Pack of A Modern Nomad - Nine
Heartbeats And Hashtags: Youth in Service - Hannah Bechsher
The Janus-Faced Craigslist:
Comedy, Tragedy, And Video Games - Ryan Gleason
The Shareable Job Search - Regan Mcmahon
Emergent by Design - Venessa Miemis
Organizing The Precariat - Tom Judd
How to Start A Worker Co-Op - Mira Luna

INTERMEZZO:

Get on The Lattice - Astri Van Arben Ahlander And Yelizavetta Kofman

LIFE:

The Gen Y Guide to Collaborative Consumption - Beth Buczynski
Stranger Dinners - Arianna Davolos
Eating Rich, Living Poor - Melissa Welter
Flexible Lives, Flexible Relationships - Lauren Westerfield
Who Needs An Ivory Tower - Jenna Brager
Detroit, Community Resilience, And The American Dream - Milicent Johnson
Every Guest A Host: Inside A Nomad-Base - Robin
Screening for Gold: How to Find And Keep Your Good Housemate - Annamarie Pluhar
Generation Open - Chris Messina
How to Build A Housing Co-Op - Mira Luna
When Your Community Lets You Down - Corbyn Hightower
Post-College Flowchart of Infinite Potential - Jenna Brager

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Editorial Reviews

I wish I’d read this book when I graduated. I wouldn’t have been less lost, but the beautiful voices, stories and experiences in these pages would have helped me understand that, before I could find myself, I had to lose myself first. If you know someone who dreams of something bigger than being part of the rat race, please give them this book.
—Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing

Herein lies the real lesson of the Internet. It may not be the one that marketers and investors want to hear, but it's the key to understanding the way people and businesses will be interacting in the peer-to-peer, digital reality. It's also at the heart of the current renaissance - an overturning of the scarcity-based, highly centralized systems that have been in place since the 1300's, and a rebirth of the values that make human society work.>
—Douglas Rushkoff, author, Program or Be Programmed

If you're a well-meaning, well-educated, generous person, and you can feel yourself being cornered and hammered relentlessly by a faceless, wicked, out-of-control economy, then SHARE OR DIE is the book for you.
—Bruce Sterling, blogger, author and journalist

Smart, funny, irreverent, resourceful, committed, visionary – these terms come to mind as you read the passionate voices of the first net-native generation. Share or Die! not only depicts and explains the daunting challenges facing young people today, it delivers some very good news: A monsoon of creative, positive energies is already shaping a better future.
—David Bollier, scholar and activist of the commons, blogger at Bollier.org, and Cofounder of the Commons Strategies Group

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