Originally Posted by FrazierI
. . . without jobs there is no economy

What's so great about an economy? People want enough to eat, not to freeze, not to fry, and something to do with their time. While capitalists have certainly built an economy around those wants or needs, is an economy the only way to provide those things?

If Eco-aliens flew down in their flying saucer and offered to provide us all those things in exchange for us giving up our "economy" because it is killing the long-term livability of our planet, what should our answer be?

Yes, thank you for saving the world.

or

You can have our economy when you pry our melted credit cards from our crispy roasted hands.