PRIME SocietyDigital Currencies: Allies in Poverty Reduction?
Inflation is often called "the tax on the poor." Could local digital currencies — designed to protect the purchasing power of the most vulnerable — become allies in reducing poverty?
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Inflation is often called "the tax on the poor." Could local digital currencies — designed to protect the purchasing power of the most vulnerable — become allies in reducing poverty?
Read article →Promulgated in 1988 as the charter of redemocratization, the Brazilian Constitution has also become one of the greatest obstacles to the country's development. Why does Brazil need a new constitution for the twenty-first century?
Read article →How will the fight against poverty evolve when humans become obsolete? Many experts point to Universal Basic Income (UBI) as the obvious solution. UBI would function as a guaranteed periodic payment to all citizens, regardless of work, offering economic security in the face of the growing replacement of human labor by machines…
Read article →A personal analysis of Brazil and Israel. It is common for people to question planning processes within organizations, particularly when forecasting future events such as revenue. The true insight lies in the difference between planned and executed outcomes — this so-called "gap analysis" is where the real learning occurs…
Read article →"We have it in our power to begin the world over again." — Thomas Paine. Long before the Nation-State emerged as the predominant form of political organization, power was exercised through a variety of other frameworks: grand empires, city-states, and more. This piece reflects on what comes next.
Read article →"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." — Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Different societies and cultures uphold beliefs that, when subjected to scientific scrutiny, find no empirical support. This essay examines how evidence — not tradition or opinion — must guide societal decisions.
Read article →"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." — Aldous Huxley. Our ancestors created the first tools around three million years ago. But as civilization advances and quality of life improves, two opposing forces shape what innovation truly is…
Read article →"Where there is no vision, the people perish." — Proverbs 29:18. The need for a shared purpose in societies is a topic of great relevance. From a libertarian perspective, freedom itself might be the fundamental goal — but is freedom alone enough to bind a society together?
Read article →"What is essential is invisible to the eye." — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. ESG and DEI are important — but they may be counterproductive to their own goals. The issue lies largely in the public's misunderstanding of correlation and causation. This article aims to clarify that.
Read article →"The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even now, in this very room…" — Morpheus. We are living inside structures so familiar we no longer see them. Government in accelerated times demands we rethink what we accept as the natural order of things.
Read article →In preparation for the Horasis Global Meeting in Vitória, Brazil, this piece reflects on what divides us and what unites us. Most consensus failures are rooted in a distinction between analysis and synthesis — between disciplines that see parts versus those that see wholes.
Read article →"As laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind… Institutions must advance to keep pace with the times." — Thomas Jefferson. We are living through a critical moment that demands a profound reassessment of governance structures.
Read article →"The greatest asset of any community is its human capital." — Herbert Hoover. The conventional HR pipeline is broken. AI is exposing decades of inefficiency. The real question: what does human capital mean in an era where machines can do most cognitive work?
Read article →"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." — Alvin Toffler. The post-WWII recoveries of Japan and Germany teach us that human capital — not capital alone — was the differentiator.
Read article →"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge." — Stephen Hawking. A real conversation with a global telecom director who found his analytics products weren't producing insight — when the insight was right there in the data.
Read article →"Necessity is the mother of invention." — Plato. Few endeavors are as challenging and uncertain as predicting where business itself is heading. Virtualization is reshaping work, value, and the very meaning of "being there".
Read article →Hosted by Sidney Botelho. Conversation with Daniel Schnaider, CEO of Platform Capital and Voluntary President of PRIME Society.
A long-form conversation with Daniel Schnaider, leader of PRIME Society, on the mission to eradicate poverty through coordinated systems.
A conversation with host Thomas Law on City 5.0, poverty eradication, and the PRIME Society vision.
How transport technology shapes our lives. An exploration of how mobility — from horses to spaceflight — has reshaped, and continues to reshape, society, governance, and the future of human movement. Written by PRIME Society's co-founder and chairman, published by Alta Books with a foreword by Giuseppe Lumare Junior.
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