Yes, I have ARRIVED AT the same CONCLUSION: empower communities to realize their wealth through COMMUNITY-OWned enterprise. FIRST up, mindset training that EMPOWERS AGENCY. Communities are poor to the extent they refuse agency, the outcome of oppression. When agency has an economic OUTLET, communities thrive. My favorite example is Japan’s one village one product http://www.ovop.jp/en/
i fULLY AGREE WITH YOUR PROPOSED SOLUTION OF COOPERATIVES. hOWEVER SPEAKING FROM A MORE eUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE, MANY OF THESE SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN ALREADY IMPLEMENTED SINCE ANCIENT TIMES, THOUGH NOW LARGELY FORGOTTEN eXCEPT aMONG THE MENNONITES & AMISH OVER HERE. a WEAKNESS IN THE AMISH SYSTEM IS THEIR REJECTION OF NEARLY ALL MODERNITY,(THEY REMAIN FIRMLY IN THE 17TH CENTURY), YET USE MODERN MEDICINE WHEN SERIOUSLY ILL, SO NOT ENTIRELY SUSTAINABLE. tHE mENNONITES, hOWEVER, dO ACCEPT SOME FEATURES OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY & WILL USE ELECTRICITY, CARS ETC. thEY ARE PARTICULARLY VALUABLE IN BRINGING MARGINAL LAND INTO PRODUCTION. sIMILAR IDEAS WERE USED BY THE JEWISH SHTETLS (LONG GONE IN THE HOLOCAUST), KIBBUTZES, IRISH MONASTERIES, THE VENERABLE BEDE IN JARROW, NORTHUMBRIA, NEOPLATONISTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT, ETC. the GENERAL IDEA BEING TO BRING INTO EXISTENCE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES WITH THEIR OWN VALUE SYSTEMS. if THESE IDEAS COULD BE HARMONIZED WITH THE SECULAR STATE, SUCH THAT ATHEISTIC/agnostic COMMUNITIES CAN COEXIST WITH (& VALUE) MONOTHEISTIC & OTHER FAITHS & ALIEN PHILOSOPHIES (fIRST DO NO HARM——) hIPPOCRATIC OATH.
a vet LIVING WITH ptsd UNDER A BRIDGE, AN ABUSED RUNAWAY YOUTH, LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED, THE MENTALLY NOT-TOO-ILL, SINGLE MOMS, MIGHT JUST BE GIVEN NEW VALUE A COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS OF MONETIZED ELECTRICITY THAT RESEMBLED THE BEST OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES, BUT WITHOUT ALL THE FEAR, FLAMES, pLAGUE , STENCH & iNTOLERANCE. the KEY INGREDIENTS HERE ARE JUST SUNLIGHT, CO2, N2, h2O & SMALL AMOUNTS OF ROCK CONTAINING SO4–, PO4—, fE3+. iF THE WASTE STREAM COULD BE USED TO SUPPORT & GIVE INDEPENDENCE TO THE UNWANTED IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES, THEN THIS I THINK WOULD BE “PROGRESS”. tHE WEALTHY CITIES, WOULD I AM SURE, BE GRATEFUL FOR THEIR SEWAGE, TRASH ETC. TO BE USED AS THE BASIS FOR REMANUFACTURING & ENERGY THAT WOULD SUPPORT THE ENTIRE ECONOMY.
“teRRAFORMING” THE INNER CITY & THE RUST BELT MIGHT BE REALISTICALLY POSSIBLE AS WELL AS MARTIAN BASES. iT MIGHT ALSO BE USEFUL IN CASE OF WAR, EMP STRIKES ETC.
Perhaps the most dynamic, innovatory systems involved trade between competing city states – Hellenistic city states, The Italian renaissance cities or between superpowers. controlled conflict may create the most innovation. however, as computerized technology now intrudes on almost every aspect of modern life, most jobs are going to “go away”. Hence lower tech. forms of civilization may be all that the unemployed will have open to them. Yet our needs our relatively simple: food, drink, shelter, family & community. even animals have figured this out.
In terms of the most successful contemporary societies, singapore & the island of penang, malaysia, come out well ahead of everyone else. However though these islands are entrepreneurial “hothouses”, their economies are largely based on trade. I am not sure how well these models would translate to an oasis in the middle of the sahara.
However using waste & sunshine as one’s initial & primary resources effectively turns the modern world “upside down” with potentially disastrous results as it provides a destabilizing caveat to “laissez faire”. laissez faire has worked very well these last 3 centuries & i am reluctant to “mess with it”.
Careful observation of energy, currency & carbon flow & waste disposal in prisons, monasteries, & “primitive” or isolated communities may yield dividends in understanding methods for the reversal of marginalization & unemployment Among those lacking education or opportunity.
The DC Transformer is invented, but not developed. I would like to enlist local help, from builders of DC Microgrids, in development for specific applications. I expect to offer kits, as opposed to finished articles, so that local makers can participate in the specific design, and do all of the construction.
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Yes, I have ARRIVED AT the same CONCLUSION: empower communities to realize their wealth through COMMUNITY-OWned enterprise. FIRST up, mindset training that EMPOWERS AGENCY. Communities are poor to the extent they refuse agency, the outcome of oppression. When agency has an economic OUTLET, communities thrive. My favorite example is Japan’s one village one product http://www.ovop.jp/en/
i fULLY AGREE WITH YOUR PROPOSED SOLUTION OF COOPERATIVES. hOWEVER SPEAKING FROM A MORE eUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE, MANY OF THESE SOLUTIONS HAVE BEEN ALREADY IMPLEMENTED SINCE ANCIENT TIMES, THOUGH NOW LARGELY FORGOTTEN eXCEPT aMONG THE MENNONITES & AMISH OVER HERE. a WEAKNESS IN THE AMISH SYSTEM IS THEIR REJECTION OF NEARLY ALL MODERNITY,(THEY REMAIN FIRMLY IN THE 17TH CENTURY), YET USE MODERN MEDICINE WHEN SERIOUSLY ILL, SO NOT ENTIRELY SUSTAINABLE. tHE mENNONITES, hOWEVER, dO ACCEPT SOME FEATURES OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY & WILL USE ELECTRICITY, CARS ETC. thEY ARE PARTICULARLY VALUABLE IN BRINGING MARGINAL LAND INTO PRODUCTION. sIMILAR IDEAS WERE USED BY THE JEWISH SHTETLS (LONG GONE IN THE HOLOCAUST), KIBBUTZES, IRISH MONASTERIES, THE VENERABLE BEDE IN JARROW, NORTHUMBRIA, NEOPLATONISTS OF ANCIENT EGYPT, ETC. the GENERAL IDEA BEING TO BRING INTO EXISTENCE SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES WITH THEIR OWN VALUE SYSTEMS. if THESE IDEAS COULD BE HARMONIZED WITH THE SECULAR STATE, SUCH THAT ATHEISTIC/agnostic COMMUNITIES CAN COEXIST WITH (& VALUE) MONOTHEISTIC & OTHER FAITHS & ALIEN PHILOSOPHIES (fIRST DO NO HARM——) hIPPOCRATIC OATH.
a vet LIVING WITH ptsd UNDER A BRIDGE, AN ABUSED RUNAWAY YOUTH, LONG TERM UNEMPLOYED, THE MENTALLY NOT-TOO-ILL, SINGLE MOMS, MIGHT JUST BE GIVEN NEW VALUE A COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS OF MONETIZED ELECTRICITY THAT RESEMBLED THE BEST OF THE HIGH MIDDLE AGES, BUT WITHOUT ALL THE FEAR, FLAMES, pLAGUE , STENCH & iNTOLERANCE. the KEY INGREDIENTS HERE ARE JUST SUNLIGHT, CO2, N2, h2O & SMALL AMOUNTS OF ROCK CONTAINING SO4–, PO4—, fE3+. iF THE WASTE STREAM COULD BE USED TO SUPPORT & GIVE INDEPENDENCE TO THE UNWANTED IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES, THEN THIS I THINK WOULD BE “PROGRESS”. tHE WEALTHY CITIES, WOULD I AM SURE, BE GRATEFUL FOR THEIR SEWAGE, TRASH ETC. TO BE USED AS THE BASIS FOR REMANUFACTURING & ENERGY THAT WOULD SUPPORT THE ENTIRE ECONOMY.
“teRRAFORMING” THE INNER CITY & THE RUST BELT MIGHT BE REALISTICALLY POSSIBLE AS WELL AS MARTIAN BASES. iT MIGHT ALSO BE USEFUL IN CASE OF WAR, EMP STRIKES ETC.
Perhaps the most dynamic, innovatory systems involved trade between competing city states – Hellenistic city states, The Italian renaissance cities or between superpowers. controlled conflict may create the most innovation. however, as computerized technology now intrudes on almost every aspect of modern life, most jobs are going to “go away”. Hence lower tech. forms of civilization may be all that the unemployed will have open to them. Yet our needs our relatively simple: food, drink, shelter, family & community. even animals have figured this out.
In terms of the most successful contemporary societies, singapore & the island of penang, malaysia, come out well ahead of everyone else. However though these islands are entrepreneurial “hothouses”, their economies are largely based on trade. I am not sure how well these models would translate to an oasis in the middle of the sahara.
However using waste & sunshine as one’s initial & primary resources effectively turns the modern world “upside down” with potentially disastrous results as it provides a destabilizing caveat to “laissez faire”. laissez faire has worked very well these last 3 centuries & i am reluctant to “mess with it”.
However I suspect it would do little harm to recycle the plastics, metals, glass & electronic waste, while using the bulk organic residue for fuel.
Careful observation of energy, currency & carbon flow & waste disposal in prisons, monasteries, & “primitive” or isolated communities may yield dividends in understanding methods for the reversal of marginalization & unemployment Among those lacking education or opportunity.
The DC Transformer is invented, but not developed. I would like to enlist local help, from builders of DC Microgrids, in development for specific applications. I expect to offer kits, as opposed to finished articles, so that local makers can participate in the specific design, and do all of the construction.