All our activities are based on and/or reflect our Philosophy, ‘Inspired Economy’.
First of all, economy means that we do not reject money itself, nor market system. But we do not accept its tendency to make humans into mere money-mongers. In Inspired Economy, money is just one of the tools of transactions. Also we use a market system to make each transaction easier.
We think human beings have a tendency to compete with each other. When money is only a tool of evaluation, most people rush to get more money, push away each other. In the Inspired Economy, most evaluated or admired are ideas, concepts and activities that inspire other people, let them do something. In a word, the most sympathized one is the most evaluated. In this system, the evaluation scale is multiple, diverse. You can inspire others by your sport performance, by your agricultural products, by your knitting technique. We will compete with each other on multiple grounds. Just one thing is common. How much more you can inspire others or improve yourself.
There are two focal points in this Inspired Economy. ‘Work & Learn’ and ‘Community Work’. I set individual for ‘Work & Learn’, community for ‘Community Work’. Some come to our network from the side of ‘Work & Learn’, for example to learn IT tech. He wants to skill up and earn money for himself or his own family. In that case he will leave our network. Because in our network, we are asked to work for the community. IT tech should be useful for the community. Even if you want to get a skill for some IT programming, you will be asked ‘what do you contribute with that skill?’. When you start from the side of individual skill, you would realize all skills would be connected to your and/or other community’s real usefulness. If not, that skill is just a waste.
For the community, there are two entrances. One is to be a trust member, the other is to be a tourist. In either case, when you have a skill, idea, and want to act within our network, you will participate more deeply. You realize what is the core of ‘community’. There is a ‘social common capital’ at the intersection of community and individual. This is the key dimension of our future society. We, citizens, build, and maintain our social capital—-bridge, road, etc.
We should cooperate to do that. Not only this hardware, we also build, and keep communication. To keep good communication, each individual should be self-sufficient—in the dimension of one’s livelihood and one’s opinion. Mutual respect is essential. Sometimes we help each other, sometimes we quarrel with each other —of course without violence. Indifference is our common enemy.