Since we still do not know how to share, we must do everything in solitary confinement or expose ourselves to domination by others.

Individual production is fun for what it can achieve, but cannot fully compete with Capitalism because it lacks economy of scale.

Some say Farmer's Markets and CSAs solve this problem, but the prices are so high that most people cannot afford those luxuries.

How is it that products are nearly free when working in isolation, but become inaccessible when grouping together with others?

I would think the price should be even lower, since we could then enjoy economy of scale.

But another part of the problem is the debt held over the farmers - such that they must charge high prices to pay interest, but never become rich themselves.

A crowd of middle-income consumers could probably collectively fund the buyout of a farm and so stop paying this usurous tribute.

Crowd funding allows us to evade interest, and crowd ownership will allow us to evade profit.

By crowd ownership I mean the crowd can own the means of production for the products they predict they will need, and accept those products directly as a return for the risk of investment.

In such a scenario, the product is not sold, and so the price they pay as consumers is exactly the costs they paid as owners, and profit does not exist.

Sincerely,

Patrick Anderson