Phil
Your analysis has a certain fascination to it. I must say that it strikes me as being rather Utopian... and rather impractical despite all of the good intentions that it is based upon.

It does seem to me that you are using the current predicament as a lever to achieve a social/political/economical restructuring of colossal proportions. My own strong suspicion is that your ideal scenario is not the most likely residue of a total economic collapse.


Originally Posted by Phil Hoskins
I think debting is the tool by which we are all kept captive and enslaved. I think it prevents most people from seeing the nature of their own enslavement so that any hope for accomplishing what I think is necessary highly unlikely.

Phil
My own situation is that I am entirely debt free. I can thank my depression era parents for shaping within me a frugal and largely non-consumerist life style. And, based upon my own experience of life would say that even within the current economic structure one is not obligated to become a slave of debt and consumerism. Possibly your life experience differs.

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