(May 26, 2018 at 11:28 pm)Khemikal Wrote: I can bring you round to how I roll, pretty easy. I read a story years ago about this old man who had a garden in his backyard. Small garden, middle of the city. Basically tore up the turf from fenceline to fenceline and just started growing veggies. People started asking him whether or not they could buy his stuff..tomatoes and the like..and being uncomfortable with transactions and not needing the money...in the end, he decided to leave a basket by his backyard gate. He managed the garden, people u-picked what they wanted and left whatever they wanted as payment in the basket (if they wanted to pay). To his surprise....people payed more than things were worth. Not a little bit more, alot more.
Now...it;s not actually human generosity at play here, it;s the psychology of value and status in transactional relationships. Most people would have read that story and thought it was a quirky, uplifting human interest piece.
I saw a subversive business model.........
I saw humanity.
That's the thing. I don't think money is necessary for people to do anything. Including working, by which I do not include any of the absolutely unnecessary jobs we have cluttering our society. The problem is that we keep expanding into these unnecessary positions.
We don't need the majority of what we consider necessary for a constructive society.
