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We often understand ‘sustainability’ as a verb rather than a noun. Could this be a reason sustainability is so easily appropriated?

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Lukas Yonis Abubeker
May 10, 2024
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A sculpture by Christina Bothwell. A sleeping woman lies on her back, while her spirit sits up, awake.
Christina Bothwell, While You Are Sleeping. 2007.

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching a free course from the University of Amsterdam about post-growth economics, and the professor, Melanie Rieback, mentioned the current structure of how startups and VC investment work.

What struck me most was the “2 & 20” model, a fee structure that compels startups to …

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