The story we're telling is simple: as humans have globalized, family values have not scaled well. Not so many lifetimes ago, we lived in kin tribes where our interests were aligned according to the principle of inclusive fitness--or kin skin in the game. Unfortunately, kin skin in the game is maladapted to our modern era, as fake news, fake foods, and fake politicians endemic in our society are catalyzed by the exclusive stakeholding associated with low alignment of interests among strangers. We wrote this book to help the world reimagine new types of social, political, and economic institutions for the global village. The social contract of the future will be based on the First Principle of Humanity: the principle of Inclusive Stakeholding--through the vested interest in the success of others, an attribute that was inherent in the inclusive fitness of our prehistoric social systems. The time has come for Inclusive Stakeholding.
