Large scale consumerism is failing... [View All]

[Evasporque]

We were farmers and small merchants. Then we moved to cities and made big things out of steel. Then we found out information was more important than making things out of steel. Then people found out they could use methods of communication to sell lots of cheap junk from China. Now we just buy things and people use that information to sell us more cheap junk from China.

We still grow things but only stuff we can sell in mega bulk to go in cheap junk food made elsewhere or sold to 5000 stores nationwide.

We really only make the machines that make the parts for machines that put the junk we like to buy in packaging and boxes.

Time to go back to the basics.

Subsidize, develop and promote farmland in a 50 mile radius radius from a urban centers that is to be used for local food production, sale and consumption only.
Give local economies a chance and stop giving it all away to big box consumerism. The days of suburban sprawl are over.

Human scale with public transportation, civil engineering....not automobile size, auto only corridors...

Subsidize, develop and promote basic necessities manufacturing...textiles and basic clothing, local green power and transportation manufacturing.

The Trades...shoe making, clothing design and construction, leather working and curing, canning and curing, tool making and metal working needs to be resurrected to rebuild the basic needs of our local communities.

Small economies of small scale and micro businesses in numerous locations throughout urban areas are set aside, developed and promoted for local goods, services and light manufacturing. Seed loans and grants to make Americans work for themselves and each other again.

No national chains. No big box advantages. No more tipping the advantage to those with money
who pay to have the rules made in their favor.

Make idle housing livable. Force banks to sell foreclosed properties or given away to organizations to bring them quickly back into use for families that need housing.

This is progressive and is our future.

Economies based on large scales have failed all but the few.

In terms of long term sustainability of our macro economy...economy of scale is a fallacy.