"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
This book is showing that people can do everything in the new economic system. It means people will be organized, create and manage their own companies (co-operatives) and own technology to manage everything in the new economic system after COVID-19.
As the saying goes, “Don’t let the crisis go to waste.” It suggests this crisis is an opportunity and we should not let this go waste by slipping back into the same unequal and disastrous capitalist system for workers and people with corporates ruling us.
People gained a good pause from the rat-race and fast-paced world and got time to reflect on their economic life. No matter what level an individual is at, 99% of the people were affected. For most of the people, their life has turned upside down. Everyone is saying “Life will never be the same again.” Then what will it be?
The book provides a practical way people can organize, revive the economy and democratically participate in business through co-operatives. The book also provides access to technology which can be used to support and manage organizations and co-operatives in different sectors to grow. It shows the way people can enhance their income, reduce their cost of living and help the underprivileged to have a decent life.
Ashfaq Syed
Ashfaq Syed, a Social Entrepreneur by heart, always strives to find solutions to the most challenging problems. His strength is in simplifying the most complex problems and providing simple solutions. Never satisfied with the status quo, he always believes that there is a better way of doing things and there is always room for improvement.
His education in the US (M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Louisiana Tech University) and career as systems engineer, Technologist, Manager, and lecturer in various fields across continents has given him rich experience in different technology-based systems. These experiences and observations are the sources of this book and the new economic system proposed. This system also becomes inevitable with the visible decline of capitalism in the past 12 years and the collapse of that system during the COVID-19 distress.
His day job is to work as a technology architect (Phapa technologies, Bangalore, India) where he is designing and implementing the very technology platform required for the new economic system.
This book is not supposed to be be-all-end-all for the new economic system. It is work-in-progress and the author wants people to join and complete it. He is available at ashfaqsyed26@gmail.com for feedback and conversation.
