01-05-2010, 09:29 AM
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Originally posted by JWFITZ
True enough.
The most important topic for us to have, I think, locally, is this: How do we maintain a local economy in the world that faces us without stimulating "uneconomic growth?" That's a constructive discussion and a very important one.
This is silly to me. You want to continue with "economics"? We do not need economics. Economics was invented by banks and the government. What we need is people working together and not living in little boxes separated by acres of land. We need to break out of the commercially induced "individuality" and work together.
A good example of this is how they rebuilt a bridge and road that was washed out on Kauai. The gov't said it would cost millions and years to finish. The community got together, ignoring the economics, and finished it in a few months.
We do not need economic growth, we need sustainability. They cannot be mixed together, they are enemies.
What we need is anarchism.