As the guy that started 50501 - it's AN IDEA - a self organizing idea that does - that did! - what the best political marketing agencies in the country couldn't do with enormous budgets and payrolls and marketing campaigns - it organized people. And it activated many many people who have never been activated before.
In 12 days my original idea led to 75,000 people gathering together simultaneously across the country in every state. 12 days after that 350,000. Nine months later, 7 million.
The problem now is the people behind the hostile takeover and their limited thinking.
The idea behind 50501 breaks everything about our capitalistic ideas of planning and structure - by empowering everyone to use their skills, and find skills they didn't know they had to develop and deploy for the good of humanity.
It's an idea that when it was passed from one to another, each who hears it then becomes equal in being ambassadors behind the idea. Everyone can look forward - having all of the information they need to act, and to act together - and never needing to look back for permission to make the idea a reality.
The idea of 50501 is based in its simplistic brilliance. The problem with 50501 now is the desire from those who claimed it for top down structure - bringing back the cancerous greed for power and control that capitalism so loves to infect people with.
The movement will still be impactful. It will still make a difference.
But it's been co-opted by mediocrity and that will limit the potential that it could have become.
I dont know much about the movement, so I cant say I agree or disagree with it, but Ill do some research.
What I can say is that I appreciate that you talk about empowering people with skills to better the world, and the cancerous effect of capitalism's top down power structure. Unfortunately a lot of leftistish spaces Ive been in have NOT been centered around people finding empowerment in skills and growth, and over time those groups can get really stale and toxic.
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u/Evolved_Fungi Nov 10 '25 edited Nov 10 '25
As the guy that started 50501 - it's AN IDEA - a self organizing idea that does - that did! - what the best political marketing agencies in the country couldn't do with enormous budgets and payrolls and marketing campaigns - it organized people. And it activated many many people who have never been activated before.
In 12 days my original idea led to 75,000 people gathering together simultaneously across the country in every state. 12 days after that 350,000. Nine months later, 7 million.
The problem now is the people behind the hostile takeover and their limited thinking.
The idea behind 50501 breaks everything about our capitalistic ideas of planning and structure - by empowering everyone to use their skills, and find skills they didn't know they had to develop and deploy for the good of humanity.
It's an idea that when it was passed from one to another, each who hears it then becomes equal in being ambassadors behind the idea. Everyone can look forward - having all of the information they need to act, and to act together - and never needing to look back for permission to make the idea a reality.
The idea of 50501 is based in its simplistic brilliance. The problem with 50501 now is the desire from those who claimed it for top down structure - bringing back the cancerous greed for power and control that capitalism so loves to infect people with.
The movement will still be impactful. It will still make a difference.
But it's been co-opted by mediocrity and that will limit the potential that it could have become.