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In reply to the discussion: Premise: Modern economic systems have no idea what to do with a productivity rate [View all]Tigress DEM
(7,887 posts)Use the money coming back from Banksters to buy up land and properties to form Commonwealth Properties whose sole use is to turn renting into equity, like a condo.
Update those properties with the labor of the participants, sweat equity, into Energy Free or as close to it as possible units with solar and wind turbine power being developed everywhere to end this problem of people who need energy assistance dying in frozen climes or desert ones. Training adults in new energy crafts that requires intelligence and ability to labor replacing a lot of the factory jobs we've lost.
Purchase large hotels with their many common rooms and parking ramps. Make those into community zones to train on clean energy platforms and even put in hydroponics or small dirt urban gardens with vines of tomato's and cucumbers scaling the main atrium up to each successive floor and the residents who live there harvest the food and use it for members in the commonwealth properties, selling some to the residents in the neighborhood and setting up vouchers for food shelf users to come and get some Fresh N Greens with their bags of cans and boxes.
People at many income levels can participate, but they have to engage in a high percentage of green behaviors to remain in the program and contribute their outside wages into a plan to get themselves out of poverty or out of crises and into a state where they have voucher specific monies available for a years worth of expenses and some rent equity to take with them whenever they leave the program.
Say someone's house was being foreclosed, they could apply to make their home a commonwealth property and the FED buys it up and rents it back to the homeowner, basically a refinance and gives them more ways to make the rent. Valuing sweat equity behavior in the range of $10 an hour people get paid to do what makes the world a better place and brings the cost of living in their home down in energy savings, availability of healthy food. Their own energy needs could be met and the energy put back into the grid to offset costs and be a source of some income.
The Commonwealth Resource sites could also have electric shuttles, little electric cars to rent and the solar panels and/or wind turbines to power them. Greenhouses growing fresh spices and veggies for the restaurant use and some dried or fresh off to the Commonwealth CoOp as well.