__/ [ Handover Phist ] on Sunday 03 September 2006 17:09 \__
> Roy Schestowitz :
>> Other Economies are Possible!
>>
>> Organizing toward an economy of cooperation and solidarity
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Can thousands of diverse, locally-rooted, grassroots economic projects
>>| form the basis for a viable democratic alternative to capitalism? It
>>| might seem unlikely that a motley array of initiatives such as worker,
>>| consumer, and housing cooperatives, community currencies, urban gardens,
>>| fair trade organizations, intentional communities, and neighborhood
>>| self-help associations could hold a candle to the pervasive and
>>| seemingly all-powerful capitalist economy. These "islands of alternatives
>>| in a capitalist sea" are often small in scale, low in resources, and
>>| sparsely networked. They are rarely able to connect with each other,
>>| much less to link their work with larger, coherent structural visions of
>>| an alternative economy.
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.dollarsandsense.org/archives/2006/0706emiller.html
>>
>> This article is from the July/August 2006 issue of Dollars & Sense
>> magazine.
>
> I dont think we need an alternative to capitalism. I'm both a Linux user
> and a capitalist myself. When I create a system for someone using FOSS,
> I fully expect to get paid for my time and expertise. And paid well,
> thank you.
>
But have a look at the article. It supports capitalism but objects to things
which we have come to know as, e.g. Walmart the benemoth. It talks about
working collabortively in smaller, distributed networks. That's just the way
Linux operates.
Best wishes,
Roy
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