Understanding our world.
Building a more equitable future.
Essays, stories, and ideas by Abel E. Martinez on work, power, culture, and the institutions that shape our lives. Home of the developing Equitable Future Initiative.
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The Value of Labor
A reflection on personal experience, work, and how we determine what labor is worth.
The Archivist
A fictional exploration of cultural memory—what people preserve, what they forget, and what they pass on.
The Equitable Future Initiative
How might we organize work, meet essential needs, and share decision-making differently?
The Equitable Future Initiative (EFI) explores these questions through proposals for economic and institutional change. Project 2028 and Beyond presents an early formulation of that framework.
This is an ongoing design effort. Its proposals invite scrutiny: what could work, what remains unresolved, and what would need to be tested.
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