I have stumbled across Russell Brand’s YouTube video the other day Billionaire Bunkers: How Super Rich Are Prepping For OFF-GRID Living. The video is fascinating as it touches on off-grid living and that even the billionaires are now participating. However, while the most people have been experimenting off-grid living due to losing their jobs with COVID, billionaires have been building bunkers with arsenals for an apocalypse. The builder claims they have been busy with billionaire bunker orders.
I found the video interesting in the respect that all this money is being spent on a possible event but not on helping our current society. I would like to think that everyone will start making little changes which in turn help avoid an apocalypse that would require bunkers. I also think eventually all these little changes will make money obsolete. I realize this sounds very idealistic. Below are some of my ideas which may help the whole if we all started trying them.
- Bartering more with neighbors or online: To get started, you can download apps like Vinted Trashnothing, Listia, Peerby, The Gone App and many others. For trading games, try GameTZ. For books, try PaperBackSwap. For CDs, try SwapaCD. For DVDs, try SwapADVD. There are also bartering communities where you can trade services.
- Community Living: I have watched many community-living housing projects in Denmark. A typical community includes a number of individual housing units for individuals and families, plus some shared areas. Co-housing does lower living costs and you are able to share other expenses as well.
- Backyard Gardens: An 800–1,500 Square Feet Garden can feed four to eight people through the growing season and produce enough storage vegetables to supplement your diet through much of the winter.
- Embrace principles of a gift economy: An Irish community is focusing on the gift economy. The community has began shifting to gift culture in which people contribute what they can, or indeed nothing, and receive what they need in the form of skills, knowledge, food grown on site.
I realize we will need more then the ideas above to change our society, but it is a small start. I came across this fun website Moneyless.org. It dives into a wide range of subjects from possible different ways to construct society differently to reducing the influence that money has on your life.
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