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chillspike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 01:58 PM Original message |
How Money Based Economies Subvert Self-Sufficiency (Part 1) |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:09 PM Response to Original message |
1. the golden past where the biggest thugs in the tribe kept everyone in line lol nt |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. Wet behind the ears |
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chillspike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:27 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I thought so too |
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BanzaiBonnie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 03:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. I quit a job once because |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 09:39 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Me too. I said that thier "business model" felt "dead". Soon, it died. |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 03:50 AM Response to Reply #2 |
30. Some of us can do this |
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Duer 157099 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. That was before every square inch of the planet and all it's resources |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 03:53 AM Response to Reply #3 |
31. I guess I lucked out then.. |
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Boojatta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
4. "No money ever exchanged hands" |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 02:28 PM Response to Original message |
6. And I totally agree with him. |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 06:07 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. We now have the technology. 100% agree. |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 09:40 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Very interesting. |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 11:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Precisely |
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chillspike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:25 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I couldn't agree more with this |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:58 AM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Yep, what good is it to have a kingdom when you don't have surfs. |
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chillspike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:12 AM Response to Reply #17 |
18. That's exactly what thought too |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 08:04 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. There is a movement already started like that. |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:42 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Just skimmed the Venus Project site -- very interesting and a lot of good ideas |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:23 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. On the part about motivation I thing it would solve itself. |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 10:00 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. I should have said "Mansions" and not McMansions thanks for pointing that out |
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Grinchie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 04:02 AM Response to Reply #23 |
32. They never account for the Pyschopaths. |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:15 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. It gets frustrating to watch the goings on in politics -- sociopathic magnet that it is |
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chillspike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:15 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. We'll have to have robots that walk around |
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zeemike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:50 AM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Well a robot miner is valuable |
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chillspike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 06:51 AM Response to Reply #8 |
16. One thing about your OP |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:30 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. The cost of living |
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chillspike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 11:26 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Exactly |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 03:15 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I find myself using those phrases that have been pounded down upon us for so long |
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chillspike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 05:01 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. I think we should look to cultures |
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txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:08 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Funny how we need to go back to "primitive" cultures to find the path to human survival |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-16-11 06:25 PM Response to Original message |
9. And 3/4 of the World Were Slaves Up Through the 1850's |
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Amonester (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 07:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
25. Are you saying 3/4 of the world are not slaves today? |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-17-11 09:52 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Poverty and Slavery Are Not Necessarily the Same, Either |
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