Re: Guy first-handedly deals with the realities of a barter-based economy: Still denounces monetary system.

yuberries — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:01:46 GMT

Thats pretty bad. But he's still not calling for state action, so...

COOL STORY BRO

Re: Guy first-handedly deals with the realities of a barter-based economy: Still denounces monetary system.

Azure — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:57:27 GMT

My problem is with the statements like these:

I feel like what I'm doing is a political process, to be honest. I think every single thing we do is political. Even if you go to the shops and buy a packet of biscuits, then you're buying into the system, willingly or not. I think we're conditioned into thinking political systems as being either communism or capitalism. I think there are a lot more options available. We just haven't explored them. My statement is really a message to the environmental movement more than anything else.

In current society, your security is cash, and that has huge repercussions. But when you take that out of the equation, you have to have relationships with people and you have to have relationships with the environment to survive.

This is about transition. We couldn't move from what we are today to—even in 10 years' time—living completely moneyless. It's about moving away from complete dependency on money, which is a very insecure position to be in, anyway. You can't have all your eggs in one basket. As more and more people move away from one economic model to another economic model, then the market reacts to that in certain ways and people produce less. It's more about slow evolutionary process than a revolutionary process. And that's quite key to the whole thing. Our whole agricultural system is based on fossil fuels. Each gallon of fossil fuel is the same as 40 man-hours per week. That's a lot of extra man hours. And so if we're going to get back to a way of agriculture that doesn't involve oil, then people are going to have to transition away from some of the jobs that aren't necessary.

Re: Guy first-handedly deals with the realities of a barter-based economy: Still denounces monetary system.

boniek — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:28:24 GMT

He is living the way he wants to and his actions fit nicely into voluntarism network. No room for complain to me.

Guy first-handedly deals with the realities of a barter-based economy: Still denounces monetary system.

Azure — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 04:15:23 GMT

Sploosh.

The worst part is according to this he used to study economics.

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Re: Guy first-handedly deals with the realities of a barter-based economy: Still denounces monetary system.

Re: Guy first-handedly deals with the realities of a barter-based economy: Still denounces monetary system.

Re: Guy first-handedly deals with the realities of a barter-based economy: Still denounces monetary system.

Guy first-handedly deals with the realities of a barter-based economy: Still denounces monetary system.