I’d still call bullshit. Community development of that sort requires macroeconomics rather than microeconomics and micromanagement.
You’d consume less just because there’s less to go around and if a resource is shared it will either get hoarded or shared out depending on how good the community is. You’d automatically do stuff that earns you money, and either scrounge new stuff or do without, rather than wasting time doing it yourself when you could throw it away and pick one up in a 2nd hand store / off a dump. As for the cooking, you’d cook cheap because that’s all you can afford to cook. You wouldn’t stockpile dollar store flipflops at all. You’d make do with flipflops as long as you can and either go barefoot or buy a new set. etc etc. Let us put it this way, I’ve grown up in a house where my dad was setting up a company with a bunch of his friends and the first decade or so of that company being around, that is, a significant part of my childhood, money was tight for luxuries (rather than for food, education etc) If my parents had run their household along those lines we’d be bankrupt. _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Udhay Shankar N Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 9:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] some notes on frugality On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: Bah Short response: wow, you're grumpy today. Slightly longer response: how much of your "bah, humbug" reaction would change if Kragen's note was repositioned as a means to achieve a resilient community [1]? Udhay [1] http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2008/01/the-resilient-c.html -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
