As we move into a new economic future, we will not leave manufacturing behind for some mythical utopian agrarian society. We still need ‘stuff’ for a good techno-sustainable standard of living (SOL), but the focus will be on a much broader quality of life (QOL) and not simply SOL. As Read more…
“There is a purpose behind distorting history to make it seem like only great men achieve significant things. It teaches people to believe they are powerless and must wait for a great man to act” Noam Chomsky. As I wrap up my advice on how to create a sustainable future through Read more…
Everything at this time is in a transformative phase of transition. Our economic system is also in transition from a failing casino capitalism to a new economic system. While I can outline what it could eventually look like, the very fact that it is in transition means it is full Read more…
I have talked about Standard of Living (SOL) and Quality of Life (QOL) a lot in this blog (e.g., Centralized versus Decentralized Living 2 – Economic Considerations (Nov 2019} (click on the ‘Quality of Life’ at the bottom of this linked post tag as a search term for other similar Read more…
The acquisition of consumer goods (stuff) to make our lives more comfortable and luxurious succinctly describes the consumer mindset. (Consumerism – a social and economic order that encourages the acquisition of goods and services in ever-increasing amounts.) But it has come at a high price in which those few (the Read more…
“The Problem isn’t a lack of money, food, water or land. The problem is that you’re given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind” Bill Hicks: The Mind Unleashed. I was reading one of the many Read more…
I ended the last post with a statement from Daniel Quinn concluding that the path forward is to recondition ourselves to simply begin anew and stop relying on old failed paradigms to somehow work out solutions for us. When I cover alternative economic paradigms, I am often asked why Read more…
“Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come…” Victor Hugo We have just come through the Christmas Holiday, where in countries where Christianity is a primary religion, we at least, for one day a year espouse, “peace on Earth and good will to all people.” We have Read more…
As an Addendum to the last post, in the USA, in 1949, the Federal Communications Commission created he Fairness Doctrine – “All controversial issues of public importance must be covered in a way that is honest, equitable, and balanced way.” Reporters argued that they, not the FCC, should make decisions Read more…
If standard of living is your major objective, quality of life almost never improves, but if quality of life is your number one objective, your standard of living almost always improves. Zig Ziglar If there is one thing that characterizes how ‘civilized’ humans have lived this past 500 years (at Read more…
As I ponder the logistics of what it will mean to live sustainably, I have to wonder if a centralized or more decentralized system is the way to make it happen. Centralized economies (what we erroneously called Communism) failed miserably – even China had to resort to a capitalistic system Read more…
It is a misconceptionthat the ultimate power belongs to the government because the greatest powerhas always and will always belong to the people. The 1% knows this, which is why they divideus, so we can hate and fear each other, thereby disempowering the greatestpower there is, which is the power Read more…