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In reply to the discussion: Holy crap! Bernie Sanders is recommending we start a WAR!!! [View all]Cleita
(75,480 posts)specifics. I put this in another post but this could be one way, starting an underground economy.
I was talking to the ladies at the gym today. Since where I live is semi-rural, people have little kitchen gardens, keep chickens and/or goats and have fruit trees. Usually, farming for yourself creates a limited crop and too much of one kind of a good thing sometimes. My family's chickens lay more eggs than we can eat for instance. I have a plum tree that is very productive and produces more plums than I or any of my neighbors would ever want to eat. I thought, what if we set up a system, where what excess we grew we could take to someone's pasture once a week as a sort of farmers' market without all the licenses and permits it involves. You would "sell" your crop for some script then you could use that script to buy other food items from the other growers that you can't or don't grow. I would also suggest donating about 10% to the food bank or homeless shelter, as a way of giving back.
I know it's kind of cheating, but we can't go on like we are with the haves taking everything and leaving very little for the have nots. The ladies at the gym thought it was a pretty good idea. We also thought of a clothes swap thing as well. We all have clothes we don't wear that ordinarily we would sell at a yard sale or donate to the Good Will. We could swap clothes for others, and household items.
What if we started by-passing the usual mainstream economic suck up all profits to the wealthy way of doing business? In five or ten years, Wall Street will start seeing the big businesses they are speculating at our expense start shriveling up because people have stopped depending on them for their needs. This model could also work for services. Like if you are an accountant you could do a certain amount of work for script to buy stuff at the market.