Some people react to the idea of creating a new economy to replace capitalism as pure naive optimism. It is just too big a task they believe. The reality is that if we all believe that, the new economy will never be built. The realty also is if enough people decide to make something happen it will. Take you money out of investor owned banks and get all you financial services from a credit union or co-operative bank or co-operative insurance company. I did it more than 25 years ago and am free of any financial services whose purpose is to make someone else rich at my expense.
Does your community or neighborhood need a service or source of goods? Create a co-operative to provide them. Ar you tired of working for someone else just because they have the money to buy your services. Need to find rewarding meaningful work? Find a few others with the same need and start a worker owned co-operative. Find buying ‘stuff’ from cars to food confusing because you cannot trust the information you are given? Start up a consumers co-operative whose information you can trust and let the workers be members so you can solve problems around the board table based on your shared objectives. Think about what you buy and find a family business or co-operative to supply it.
Want to see an example from Maine in the USA. Check out: Rock City Cafe https://vimeo.com/253301150 This video is courtesy of the Co-operative Development Institute http://cdi.coop/
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