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Next Economy Ipsum

Lorem ipsum for people who center community voices through participatory design.

Why This Exists

The "next economy" movement (cooperative economics, solidarity economy, regenerative economics, just transition) does genuinely important work. It aims to reshape how communities build wealth, share power, and steward resources. The people in this movement care deeply. Their work matters.

And yet.

Some of the most important conversations in this space, conversations meant to reach everyday people, can disappear into a fog of jargon. When a room full of practitioners talks about "community-driven bioregional development through cooperative incubation programs via solidarity networks," everyone nods. Everyone also walks away with a completely different understanding of what was said.

This generator takes 200+ real terms from the movement's vocabulary and assembles them into plausible-sounding sentences. The output reads like a conference session description, a grant application, or a strategic plan. That's the joke, and that's the point: when the real thing and the parody sound the same, the language has stopped doing its job.

This comes from love. Brent Dixon works in this movement. His partner Jess Rimington co-wrote Beloved Economies (a term you'll find in the word bank). The satire is an insider's nudge, not a dismissal. The movement deserves language as clear and powerful as its intentions.

Try It

nexteconipsum.github.io

Output Modes

  • Paragraphs (3-6 sentences each, up to 10 paragraphs)
  • Sentences (up to 25 individual sentences)
  • Words (raw terms from the vocabulary bank, up to 500)

Generated text copies to your clipboard with one click.

Vocabulary

The word bank spans six categories: concepts, actions, frameworks, values, modifiers, and connectors. Fifteen sentence structures combine terms from across these categories to produce output that sounds earnest, important, and almost meaningful.

Built With

React 18, Tailwind CSS (CDN), and Lucide icons. Deployed to GitHub Pages via gh-pages.

Local Development

npm install
npm start

Deploy

npm run deploy

License

MPL-2.0

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Satirical lorem ipsum generator for social impact jargon. Assembles 200+ real buzzwords into sentences that sound important and mean nothing.

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