# Jeremy Rifkin's economic flows

**URL:** <https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/jeremy-rifkins-economic-flows/1041>\
**Category:** Research\
**Created:** [January 24, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/jeremy-rifkins-economic-flows/1041 "2021-01-24T22:20:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![systemshift](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@systemshift](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/systemshift)\
**Post date:** [January 24, 2021, 10:20pm UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/jeremy-rifkins-economic-flows/1041/1 "2021-01-24T22:20:21Z")

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For those who don’t know Jeremy Rifkin, he is one of the more famous economists saying will get free stuff in the future based on exponential growth.

This [lecture](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QX3M8Ka9vUA) of his is a good introduction on his work.

In a more [recent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qma2P7EW8Ew) discussion, he said the following: 22:33 “We are moving from markets to networks, we’re moving from transactions to flows.”

This seems basically describing SourceCred. I wonder if anyone has read his books and is able to find more on this part that might be useful for the community.

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**Author:** ![patchworquill](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/discourse.sourcecred.io/patchworquill/32/914_2.png) [@patchworquill](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/u/patchworquill)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://discourse.sourcecred.io/t/jeremy-rifkins-economic-flows/1041/2 "2021-01-28T02:46:12Z")

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Check out Bodo Hoenen’s work on [Open-Social Innovation](https://www.dev4x.com/osi) and [Super Collective Intelligence](https://www.dev4x.com/project-sci#the-power-of-super-collective-intelligence)

He goes into depth about Combinatorial Innovation (using lego blocks as a metaphor for modular + composable systems), which is also in the lineage of W.B. Arthur, Stuart Kaufman, Cesar Hidalgo…

He identifies a licensing system that will enable this, and a clone/merge token mechanism that will help keep R&D rolling at lower and lower costs (akin to Rifkin’s predictions about the Zero Marginal Cost Society).

Honestly, love Rifkin’s work. The outcome is like Fully-Automated Luxury Communism, only Rifkin’s writing is less heedlessly provocative, and much, much more rigorously evidence-based.