Gordon Cook wrote:
This leaves us with fend for ourselves building resilient communities it looks like to me.
We, as groups, can build resilient communities if we can break free from the programming that tells us investments must be for Profit. We, as groups, can build resilient outcomes if we begin investing for Products. Resilience cannot be found in a production model that requires we feed off of the disadvantage of those who have not yet organized. Our resilient organizations must allow latecomers to pay more than Costs (to pay Profit), but we must recognize they overpay because they are at a disadvantage, and so we must treat that overpayment as their *investment* - so that we all can co-own the Means of Production in the amount we each need of those Products. There is no reason to buy or sell when the co- owners of the Means of Production are the consumers of those Products, for in that case, the Product is already in the hands of those who will consume it.