{"id":583,"date":"2025-08-12T15:57:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2026-03-29T14:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T21:17:41","slug":"the-care-economy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/the-care-economy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"the care economy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-16018d1d wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-50\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/give-to-ryk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">give<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The care economy is an emerging model for supporting people, things, and processes we\u2019d like to see more of in the world.<\/strong>&nbsp;It is about recognizing the things in our experience that bring us joy, that give us a [wow] or a [yes], and responding to these moments in a supportive way. It\u2019s actually just, well, practicing care, and that\u2019s not new at all. But the language of commerce is transactional, rather than responsive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/the-care-economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The care economy is an emerging model for supporting people, things, and processes we\u2019d like to see more of in the world.&nbsp;It is about recognizing the things in our experience that bring us joy, that give us a [wow] or a [yes], and responding to these moments in a supportive way. It\u2019s actually just, well, &#8230; <a title=\"the care economy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/12\/the-care-economy-2\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about the care economy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neurodiversity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paor1p-9p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":502,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/29\/the-care-economy\/","url_meta":{"origin":583,"position":0},"title":"the care economy","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"July 29, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The care economy is an emerging model for supporting people, things, and processes we\u2019d like to see more of in the world.\u00a0It is about recognizing the things in our experience that bring us joy, that give us a [wow] or a [yes], and responding to these moments in a supportive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;chronicle&quot;","block_context":{"text":"chronicle","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/category\/chronicle\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":732,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/29\/top\/","url_meta":{"origin":583,"position":1},"title":"musical environments To learn more\u2026","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"March 29, 2026","format":"status","excerpt":"musical environments To learn more about or sign up for Ryk\u2019s family musical environments, visit the imeetswe homepage musical environments the care economy The care economy is an emerging model for supporting people, things, and processes we\u2019d like to see more of in the world. give to ryk","rel":"","context":"In &quot;neurodiversity&quot;","block_context":{"text":"neurodiversity","link":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/category\/neurodiversity\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":622,"url":"https:\/\/ryk.groetchen.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/28\/circle-of-gratitude\/","url_meta":{"origin":583,"position":2},"title":"circle of gratitude","author":"Ryk Groetchen","date":"August 28, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Certain teachers teach to those who learn easily: Let's applaud such teachers. 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