When no amount of cash or currency we have available can secure the goods or services that we need, practical need will step in and demand that we exchange whatever we have or can offer to secure whatever we need. Ultimately, as real creativity, innovation and entrepreneurism begin to thrive at the community level, one … Continue reading Local Currencies & Bartering or Exchange Platforms
Tag: Food Shortages
Rationing: A way of sharing the basics fairly, so there is enough for all
The days of unnecessary food production and manufacturing, prioritised only on the basis of repeat financial turnover and profit-making are done – even if that doesn’t appear to be the case right now. As we experienced being the case in the early days and weeks after the first Covid Lockdown was called in March 2020, … Continue reading Rationing: A way of sharing the basics fairly, so there is enough for all
The collapse of everything we know will teach us about the essential basics
The process of everything changing around us that is now underway will lead to what some will recognise as a wartime economy – whether or not we have by that stage become involved in any larger conflict that has been set off as a result of the response to the Invasion of Ukraine. The availability … Continue reading The collapse of everything we know will teach us about the essential basics