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If you could make a new economy from the ground up, what would it look like?<\/p>\n
Enric Duran has tried\u2014twice. In 2008 he became famous after borrowing half a million dollars from Spain’s banks and refusing to give it back. He then masterminded the Catalan Integral Cooperative, a network of independent workers that may just represent the future of work altogether. Now, still in hiding because of his heist, Duran is orchestrating his next utopia, a cryptocurrency-infused global financial system. In this month’s issue of VICE<\/em> magazine<\/a>, I go face-to-face with Duran and on a tour of his remarkable undertakings.<\/p>\n Read the article VICE<\/em>‘s website<\/a> or look through the print version<\/a>. While you’re at it, retweet this<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n I had a great time speaking about God in Proof<\/em> at St. Thomas University<\/a> in Fredericton, Canada. I talked about cooperativism on Majority Report with Sam Seder<\/em><\/a> and at Civic Hall<\/a> with a panel of sagely organizers and thinkers. I upset some white people<\/a> and prayed the Angelus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you could make a new economy from the ground up, what would it look like? Enric Duran has tried\u2014twice. In 2008 he became famous after borrowing half a million dollars from Spain’s banks and refusing to give it back. He then masterminded the Catalan Integral Cooperative, a network of independent workers that may just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32,101,82,22,50,69,73],"class_list":["post-2880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-economy","tag-imagination","tag-politics","tag-saints","tag-technology","tag-utopia","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}In other news<\/h2>\n