We're The Ones We've Been Waiting For
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Meetup argues that the internet is shifting recovery from institutions to locally organized groups, citing 600,000 jobs lost as context and claiming a million meetups and millions of members are forming real solutions: neighborhood PTAs retooled to solve school funding, ski-trip groups that function as social apps, carpooling and babysitting collectives that spawn small businesses. The platform plus simple APIs and group organizers, not engineers, produce functioning community services that scale and grow faster than before.
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