In societys where we value our actions after the profit we are loosing the view for the needs and gratification. Loosing ourselfs in the routine of daylife. Most of us even forget the impact our actions. Driven by an extrinsic motivation, pushing people into the need of "gainful employment”.
We’ve created and still supporting a system which turns out beeing kind of psychopat. It’s a system based on the fear. The idea of not becoming enough. For what else reason should I then trade, istead of sharing? I’m not wanting to condemn, but whiching to have a view on trading itself in condicion of time groups.
This article isn’t claming to be scientific. Just tryn to questionizing some strongly ancord habits.
….but before having a view on trading I would like to go a step further. Because what is needed before beeing able to trade is property. Property itself can be understood as something taken from the comon. It’s a resource holded by private/group until accepted trade occurs. Two maigor(possible) problems can be apier from that. Obviosly as soon as there are enough people trading, it creates a force. Resources you’re mainly able to resieve are needed to be in exchange. It’s creating a “need” to search for trading oportunities for your own service. Which is then aswell creating a extrinsic motivation, which then turns in modern markets in a direction where people following “oportunities for a trade” instead of activities intrinsic motivated. Like that I find my self where a lot’s people doing jobs they would never do under “normal condicions”. Having more “marketpower” is then directly related to having more power over people.
There might be many solutions to declining this trend. Me personly resonate quiet strongly to those related to the gifteconomy. Somehow I have the feeling while creating a gifteconomy it’s at the same work on all the habbits which let the world look like how it is now.
It’s about sharing and collaboration instead of sensless competition. Same as it creates trust and connections towards each other.
Taking care about something (someone) “just” because you want to. You do because you love to help and because you’re passionated about.
But what if not enough people think like that? The world is already full of volunteers. And once more resources are free available again, more could do so.
Starting with food:
Everything you’ll like to do not alone you need people. Nothing more brings people that easy together then food. Everybody needs to eat. To have this resource free available could be a big step.
While 30-40% of all produced food is wasted a good start is about preventing the waste while sharing the saved food freely. In Germany there’s since about 3 years a movent existing called foodsharing just doing exactly this. In this very moment we’re working on to turn it international. While this movment started from the idea of saving food, there’s still the main focus on. Step by step I would like to create a bigger focus direction eatable cities, community supported agricultre and freeGardens.
If anybody is interested in here, just conntact me.
Sharing everything (you like to). For that we’re working on a open source multible sharing platform called yunity.org. But it’s not “only” about creating a plattform, it’s on the same about creating/supporting a social architecture brining people together with a focus on collaration.
Once the MVP of the plattform is finished it will be used in first to turn foodsharing into a international movement.
Statement about communitys:
…just some in every contry with the same intention, well connected could easily create momentum.
Creating community/movement:
I’m looking for a team of 9-30 activists, interested in playing oasis game simliar settings, while traveling together and being filmed.
I will start with in Europe. (if someone likes to do same/simliar somewhere else: DO IT! :-))
Do we need money?
One of the only reason why we may feel like, is of having a lack of connections. Once a network is big enough it’s self-supporting.
That’s something I’m highly interested to work on.