Yeah, the Ingenesist did a bunch of YouTube videos on social capitalism. I 
tried to get a hold of him, but I've not had any luck. 
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> On Nov 15, 2016, at 09:40, BILROJ via Centroids: The Center of the Radical 
> Centrist Community <[email protected]> wrote:
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> The Ingenesist Project
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> The New Definition Of Social Capitalism
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> by Dan Robles on July 22, 2014
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> About 3 months ago, I received a cryptic email from what sounded like a 
> war-weary Wikipedia Editor pinned down in the trenches by enemy cross-fire.  
> His message was stark;  Wikipedia will delete “Social Capitalism”, you are in 
> the best position to save it”.
> 
> Since the dawn of Social Media, many people in the Social Capital domain, 
> including myself, had been contributing references, material, ideas, and 
> theoretical constructs to the doomed Wikipedia article in naive optimism that 
> Social Capitalism may indeed be a new form of social organization.  So, upon 
> receiving the desperate plea from the front lines of Wikipedia D-day, I 
> jumped in and submitted argument after argument to an already formidable 
> defense deploring the powerful Wikipedia Editors to preserve the article, the 
> idea, the possibility…
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> But alas, we failed.  Perhaps we did not have proper academic credentials. 
> Maybe we were not widely cited by important people. Our oppressors eventually 
> provided a weak explanation related to social systems and economics, etc., 
> but in retrospect, I think the real problem was that we were trying to define 
> something that did not yet exist despite nearly 30 million Google search 
> returns.
> 
> I have to admit that I agree with the Wikipedia editors. In reviewing that 
> experience recently, I turned to the definition for “Capitalism 
> (disambiguation)” in Wikipedia:
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> Wikipedia defines Capitalism as an “economic and social system in which the 
> means of production are privately controlled”. 
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> Factors of Production (from classical economics) are presumed to be something 
> like “land, labor, and capital”.  Now, consider that modern day factors of 
> production are increasingly cited as: “Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, 
> and Creative Capital” of people and their relationships.  After all, these 
> are the assets that are deployed in order to produce the proverbial “basket 
> of goods” upon which most global currencies are compared.  
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> This is not trivial. Since these modern factors of production exist between 
> the ears of each individual person, they are, by definition “privately 
> controlled” and readily exchanged for economic outcomes among people in 
> social networks.
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> If the US Supreme Court agrees that corporations are people, then it is 
> equally valid that people are corporations too. Taken together:
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> Social Capitalism refers to the economic and social system in which the means 
> of production are social, creative, and intellectual assets.  
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> However, (and a big however), in order for Social Capitalism to become the 
> dominant form of social organization, quite literally, society must 
> reorganize itself to account for exchange and trade of intangibles. Then, all 
> the decentralized innovations that we call the “Social Capital Domain” can 
> integrate, unify, and dominate. Everything will change.
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> Perhaps then we’ll finally have a Wikipedia article for Social Capitalism 
> like those clear, present, and magnificently organized warriors behind such 
> economic facts as  Corporate Personhood.
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