We see upseedage in the quietest social movements. The formal economy (the old pine) is collapsing under debt and precarity. In its shade, upseedage looks like DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations), time-banking, community land trusts, and repair cafés. These are not protesting the old system; they are ignoring it.
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Nature invented upseedage billions of years ago. In a climax forest—a dense canopy of ancient pines or oaks—the ground is dark, acidic, and hostile to new life. An upgrade would try to prune the old pines to let in more light. Upseedage, however, sends in the hemlock and the beech. upseedage