Podcasts By Dr. Kirk Adams: Interview with Zhou Fang, Founder and Principal Practitioner, Intersectional Group

I don't think I've heard the term solidarity economy before.

Could you talk a little bit about that?

Oh, it's so fun.

Solidarity economy is not really outside of the capitalistic system.

It can still exist in the capitalistic society.

Although we think about solidarity economy, it's not very exploitive.

It's more like we do this together.

So if you think about a co-op, That is solidarity economy.

If you think about employee owned business, that's solidarity.

Or if you think about a mutual aid or a mutual fund, that's solidarity economy.

Or like sometimes people are like, I'm not going to buy anything this year.

I'm only going to exchange and trade with people.

That's also solidarity economy.

OK, OK.

Or even like a Shreve store that could also solidarity.

I've seen circular economy.

More circular.

Circular is thinking about keeping assets in the community, strengthening the community by generating business activity intentionally within a community.

Yes, yes,

yes, absolutely.

But let's talk about time.

So reclaiming time, I assume that when it dawns on them that if I'm spending all my time in... busy activity, I can't really enjoy abundance.

And then they think about wanting to have more time to enjoy.

Are there certain things that you suggest or things that seem to work for people as far as reclaiming some of their time?

Yes, absolutely.