Premise: Modern economic systems have no idea what to do with a productivity rate

[hunter]

12. "Productivity" needs to put down like an evil vampire. Drive a wooden stake through its heart.

What the economists call "productivity" is actually the destruction of the natural environment that supports life on earth.

I think we should directly subsidize people who are willing to experiment with low energy, non-resource depleting lifestyles.

In other words, subsidize people who don't have cars, create "vegetarian" and "locavore" food stamp programs, design urban homesteads of community gardens and self-sufficient solar powered housing. Subsidize low energy economic activities... arts, writing, music, etc.

Experimental communities that work could be expanded throughout the greater population until destructive forms of productivity (fossil fuels, automobile commuting, "factory farming," high energy chemical and GMO agricultural monoculture) were forced into obsolescence.