Originally Posted by housemouse2
all the answers to your question can be found in the past. The world didn't get this way on it's own. What we are in is the last stages of a failed economic experiment started in 1950. The economy we grew up with is not the economy that was originally here.
Probably because there was no economy.
after ww2 a linear economy system based on consumption was established. Prior to this economic model the economy was based on recycling and using few resources.
And queing up for rations with a little book of stamps, nah not again i hope.
If you go back prior to ww2 you will find exactly how they did it. Material was more expensive, so was labor. however, money was sound and inflation non existent.
Wood for housing, animals and crops for food, learning how to save and aquire seeds, so on and so forth.
to get back to that model we need to change a few fundamental ideals:
No, we need to change a lot of ideas and the system.
fractional banking, credit cards, federal reserve all need to end.
minum wage needs to end
government needs to get out of private industry
anti-monopoly laws need to be placed back in.
Exactly, there would be no need for a currency, would there?
how to start:
you cannot due this all be yourself but there is a number of things you can do to start the ball rolling.
first stop wasting money on convenience foods, things you don't need.
I suggest you get some old books that tell how things were done before the 1950's. Cooking, gardening, ect.
it is legal to make your own community money, backed by gold in a community bank. As long as the money doesn't look like federal reserve notes and you don't mint coins.
Get your community accustomed to a community owned bank, with gold stock, print own money. This is a key part.
set up an exchange for the federal reserve note to community money as well.
And the cycle begins again....
utilities:
depending on area, you will have to address water, sewage, electric. Those are all easily fixed.
Water and sewage yes, electricty!!, why?
Taxes: this is tricky. Unless you can get your community declared a sovereign entity and no subject to taxes, like an Indian reservation or religious compound you are screwed on taxes.
Would you need to pay taxes once everything was crashed?
To be more self sufficient you simply need land to farm or product to produce to sell. Everyone in rural communities used to have their own farms. Small family farms to have food.
Yes they did, in the realms of what we have now, why go back to the days of the sheriff of Notingham and start paying taxes again?
Electricity is only been around 100 years. Solar panels are good and so is non electrical units...like oil lamps.
So, prior to a hundred years ago we did without it, um, so why not again? you can make lamp oil from animal fats and such, unless you need a laptop to talk to people who no longer have electric to run one themselves?
It doesn't matter how off the grid you house is...without reestablishing sound money and a recyclable economy you won't get that new community. You must start with a community bank, gold stock and community cash.
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