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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 29/10/2025

The result is that we're using our salary jobs to fund our passion projects: A parallel economy built on the stability of a solid paycheck, and providing enough leisure hours for creative tasks.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 29/10/2025

AI is further automating work. “I haven’t written a line of code in months," one developer said. "I just refine my prompts.” If you can get the same work done in half the time… why shouldn’t the workweek be half as long?

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 29/10/2025

Others joined him—forming the Overemployed community, now 5,000+ strong. One guy reportedly had nine jobs at once. (Earning $900K/year. Remote.)

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 29/10/2025

He was so efficient that he finished 40 hours of work in 20. So he thought: why not do two 20-hour jobs instead of pretending to work 40 at one? Soon, he was earning two six-figure salaries.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 29/10/2025

David Le was bored at his job. So he got a new one—without quitting the old one. 🧵👇🏻

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House Our Neighbors @houseourneighbors.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Looking forward to our first substack live discussion with @elysian.press this afternoon about our campaign to fund the Seattle Social Housing Developer with an Excess Compensation Payroll Tax. substack.com/@ellegriffin...

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Coming up on Tuesday, a Guest Lecture with Tiffani McCoy who spearheaded the initiative to tax companies paying executives more than $1 million. It passed, despite opposition from Microsoft, Amazon, ...

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 12/09/2025

We need, not just a minimum wage, but also a minimum salary and a minimum equity share.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 11/09/2025

You can look at the chart I am referring to to see how each country specifically stacks up on each thing.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 10/09/2025

Europe won the 20th Century, and I think it will still win the 21st, but they'll have to innovate, economically develop, attract international talent, and militarily protect themselves to keep the streak going. I think they will. www.elysian.press/p/a-report-c...

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Ranking every country in the world

A report card on how the world is doing right now.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 10/09/2025

Today: Europe is one of the best places to live. Tomorrow: Europe risks falling relatively behind in tech, growth, and global influence. But the US faces similar risks because of our political instability and isolationism, and we have much farther to go to prosper at the level of Europe.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 10/09/2025

Analysts aren’t worried about today’s prosperity, but tomorrow's problems: ◘ Aging/shrinking populations → fewer workers, more retirees, pension strain. ◘ Lagging productivity/innovation vs US & China → dependant consumers, not creators ◘ Energy insecurity → reliance on imports

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 10/09/2025

Why does everyone say Europe is failing economically, when: ◘ It has the highest incomes in the world ◘ It has the lowest inequality rates ◘ Inflation rates are among the lowest & unemployment is at near record lows Europe is the most prosperous region on Earth! www.elysian.press/p/a-report-c...

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Ranking every country in the world

A report card on how the world is doing right now.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

Publishing doesn’t have to be extractive. Neither does the economy. Readers should benefit from a book’s success (not just publishers), just as all of us should benefit from the economy (not just investors). This is what the future of books (and business) can look like. wefunder.com/elysian.press/

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Invest in The Elysian: We Should Own The Economy: Get Ownership in a Book About Creating More Owners

We Should Own The Economy: Get Ownership in a Book About Creating More Owners

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

I'm doing it this way for a reason: We need to change who owns capital. Private ownership of capital created wealth & prosperity, but now we need more owners of it. Not just the founders and executives and already rich, but everyone. That's the subject of my book: We Should Own The Economy

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

I retain ownership & creative control. My readers become stakeholders, not a publishing house. And they are incentivized to help it succeed—they'll earn a share of the profits when it sells.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

I especially love Singapore's regular think tanks that inspire youth to reimagine governance. I once wrote about one of the ideas that resulted: A "wikiocracy." www.elysian.press/p/what-if-go...

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What if government worked like Wikipedia?

Wikiocracy as the next phase of democracy.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

YES! And that doesn't surprise me that they use QV. There is a lot to love about the Singapore model. If Yarvin wants to use Singapore as the poster-child for autocracy I'll happily use it as the poster-child for innovating democracy. Let's take what works!

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(((E. Glen Weyl/衛谷倫))) ⿻ 🇺🇸/🇩🇪/🇹🇼 @glenweyl.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

One thing I love about this piece by @ellegriffin.bsky.social is that she gets that even the best cases of dictatorships are really just ways of implementing smarter democracy...shortcuts there, sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, but ultimately democracy is the good outcome.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

Many don't realize just how much democratic input Singapore's autocracy is actually taking into consideration. And as you point out, Taiwan takes that to the next level. The more of that we can do, the better! Thank you for reading and engaging with my work E. Glen!!!! I'm a huge fan of yours!

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

The tech we invent now—AI, automation, satellites—can be used for great good or great harm. Dictatorship puts those tools in one man’s hands. Democracy puts them in ours. Read the full post 👇🏻 www.elysian.press/p/so-america...

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So, America wants a dictator

Are we doomed to repeat history—or can we build something better first?

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

The solution isn't to abolish democracy, it's to innovate it. @glenweyl.bsky.social thinks democracy could become incredibly organized and efficient if we catch it up to the times with: Quadratic voting Quadratic budgeting Participatory democracy And yes, automation!

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

Democracy has a better track record. Stronger economies Safer streets Less corruption Longer, healthier lives But it's messy and inefficient. China and Singapore are fully automating and building hundreds of miles of train track while America can't even build a track between LA and San Francisco.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

The difference between these futures? Benevolence. Plato imagined a philosopher-king. Voltaire admired “enlightened despots.” @menciusmoldbug.bsky.social argues for a CEO-dictator. But dictatorship is a gamble: sometimes you get Singapore. More often, you get Russia, Syria, or North Korea.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

If he’s benevolent: Free, universal internet access Autonomous taxis reduce accidents Robots care for elderly & disabled Brain interfaces restore sight & hearing AI-enabled direct democracy UBI funded by automation A techno-utopia.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

If he’s evil: Satellites cut internet for dissenters Autonomous cars reroute citizens to detention centers Humanoid robots record households Thoughts filtered by computer-brain interfaces “Loyalists” get bandwidth, dissidents get silence A techno-dystopia.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 09/09/2025

Imagine it’s the near future, and America elects its first dictator. 👇 www.elysian.press/p/so-america...

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So, America wants a dictator

Are we doomed to repeat history—or can we build something better first?

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 08/09/2025

The real risk is taken by employees—those who take pay cuts and work long hours hoping for a $200,000 payout that rarely comes. We should own the economy --> wefunder.com/elysianpress

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Invest in The Elysian: We Should Own The Economy: Get Ownership in a Book About Creating More Owners

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 08/09/2025

“Founders deserve $200M because they take all the risk.” What risk? Founders spend other people’s money until their company succeeds—or doesn’t. If it fails, they can get another job, this time with connections and clout.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 23/06/2025

This essay is part of TERRAFORM, six writers exploring the future of our planet through an online series and print pamphlet @metalabel.bsky.social elysian.metalabel.com/terraform?re...

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TERRAFORM

Six writers explore the future of our planet.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 23/06/2025

Imagine a self-governing forest. It owns the land it dwells on, can earn its own money by deciding what percentage of it to cut down and sell, and expand without human intervention. This is the dream of Terra0 👇🏻 www.elysian.press/p/a-self-gov...

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A self-governing forest

Terra0 thinks nature should become economically independent.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

And my next article features that very study!

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

Yes, that's the goal! Sorry, just realized this was worded wrong, it should be: make big companies 10% employee owned (not make 10% of big companies employee owned)

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

Disclosure part two: No part of the purchase price will be received until a Form C is filed and only through Wefunder’s platform. Any indication of interest involves no obligation or commitment of any kind.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

Mandatory Disclosure: The Elysian is "testing the waters" to gauge investor interest in an offering under Regulation Crowdfunding. No money or other consideration is being solicited. If sent, it will not be accepted. No offer to buy securities will be accepted

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

This post was research for a book I'm writing about the future of the economy. You can still invest in the project and earn a share of the revenue when it sells: wefunder.com/elysianpress

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Invest in The Elysian: We Should Own The Economy: Get Ownership in a Book About Creating More Owners

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

Here’s how we take that moonshot and create 120 million worker-owners in the next 25 years: www.elysian.press/p/120-millio...

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How do the rich get rich? Equity

Here's how we create 120 million equity-owners in one generation.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

The GI bill incentivized millions of Americans to buy homes. They became owners of appreciating assets for the first time, creating country-wide prosperity. We shifted wealth into the hands of the many through home ownership. We can do it again with business ownership.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

Make 10% of large companies employee-owned, like Expanding ESOPs is working toward. If workers own 10% of every company through ESOPs, that's $7.5 trillion of wealth creation potential shifting into worker hands.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

Private equity firms should convert companies to employee-owned companies, like KKR and Ownership Works are doing. They've created 129 employee-owned companies and 217,810 worker-owners. $596 million has gone to workers, with $8 billion+ projected to shift into their hands.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

Small businesses should sell to employees, not private equity. 2.9 million US business owners aged 55+ will retire in the next 15 years, if even 25% transition to employee ownership, that's 625,000 new employee-owned companies and up to 31 million new employee-owners.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 15/05/2025

How do the rich get rich? Equity. Here's how we make create 120 million more equity owners, and make the middle class way richer: 🧵:

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 06/05/2025

I get financial backing for the expensive parts of writing and selling a book, but my readers and I earn upside when it sells—not just publishers and agents! And I get to write my chapters live on Substack and get feedback from readers before I ultimately edit them all into the final book.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 06/05/2025

This is so exciting to me for so many reasons: I get to write about something that is interesting to me, but I know there is a market for it. I retain ownership of my work without having to sell it to a publisher, but there is still a group of people motivated to help me it become successful.

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Elle Griffin @elysian.press · 23/04/2025

Disclosure part two: No offer to buy securities will be accepted. No part of the purchase price will be received until a Form C is filed and only through Wefunder’s platform. Any indication of interest involves no obligation or commitment of any kind.

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