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• 01 Oct 08
  

  dan

  things to do while the financial system burns:
  1) use the heat to warm your hands
  2) harness the energy to kickstart local economies and industries

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• 30 Sep 08
  

  hyacint

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• 26 Sep 08
  

  I’d rather spend these precious minutes explaining why the financial meltdown is not a bad thing for a lot of us. In brief: there’s a real economy, and a speculative economy. While they are usually related to each other - even dependent on each other - th

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  • The opportunity here, while the big boys are down, is to rebuild the genuine, local commercial infrastructure. To make shoes, clothes, food, education, healthcare and everything else we can in a bottom-up fashion. While speculators enjoy the economy of scale, we inhabit an ecology scaled to the human being that was lost in the corporatist equation.

  • Yes, this is a great opportunity for personal and community change. And even Republican voters participate in the ethical global order when they shop and sometimes (even) work Local and/or green.

     

    Whether one believes in or practices top down thinking/acting or bottom up thinking/acting as a country we have to decide who can lead, inspire and get government responsive to the successful examples of both.
• 21 Sep 08
  

  Todd Suomela

  All this means is that you can’t count on capitalism anymore. Your wealth is not how many paper assets you have. It’s not even how much land you have (or think you have). It’s what you can do. It’s your value to other people.
  
  The real economy need not suffer in the downfall of the speculative economy. If anything, the real economy has been repressed by the speculative economy. Real farmers have been crushed by Big Agra, real druggists have been crushed by Wal-Mart and real transportation alternatives have been crushed by Big Oil and Big Auto.
  
  The opportunity here, while the big boys are down, is to rebuild the genuine, local commercial infrastructure. To make shoes, clothes, food, education, healthcare and everything else we can in a bottom-up fashion. While speculators enjoy the economy of scale, we inhabit an ecology scaled to the human being that was lost in the corporatist equation.

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• 20 Sep 08
  

  Michel Bauwens

  All this means is that you can’t count on capitalism anymore. Your wealth is not how many paper assets you have. It’s not even how much land you have (or think you have). It’s what you can do. It’s your value to other people.

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• 19 Sep 08
  

  Damien DeBarra

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  annest

  In brief: there’s a real economy, and a speculative economy. While they are usually related to each other - even dependent on each other - that relationship changed over the past twenty years. Really since the Reagan era. Trickle-down or “voodoo” economic

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• 18 Sep 08
  

  Katie Day

  "All this means is that you can’t count on capitalism anymore. Your wealth is not how many paper assets you have. It’s not even how much land you have (or think you have). It’s what you can do. It’s your value to other people.
  
  The real economy need not s

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  Jan Zuppinger

  "In brief: there’s a real economy, and a speculative economy. While they are usually related to each other - even dependent on each other - that relationship changed over the past twenty years."

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