__/ [ BearItAll ] on Monday 04 September 2006 09:17 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>> __/ [ 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.
>>
>
> This seems to be one of those anti-success things. Walmart is big because
> it's successfull. People must like shopping there or they wouldn't have an
> income.
Ask an American why they like Walmart. There are several factors and among
them:
* Walmart saves legwork because it has everything (integration).
* Walmart is inexpensive (read: cheap, owing to repetition, reuse)
Both advantages are obtained through size, which makes a cyclic trap. How,
for example, can small rivals gain acceptance? Investments are one options,
but it is rarely available to startups in technology, let alone to
non-profit-making 'crusades'.
Best wishes,
Roy
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