Seems to be that while trade was helpful in the past, it is now an obsolete practice that creates power imbalances and should be abolished as a practice entirely.
So, mutual aid instead of exchange, is that the basic idea? I love mutual aid but I am not sure sure the structure to support it at scale has really been developed yet. Then again, we’ve barely tried so some experimentation is definitely in order. If it can be made to work it does seem like the ideal solution, but there’s still the question of how people will know how much of a given good to produce.
Seems to be that while trade was helpful in the past, it is now an obsolete practice that creates power imbalances and should be abolished as a practice entirely.
The tagline they have on trade-free.org is:
"the ones who offer, should not ask anything in return
the ones who receive, should not have to give anything in return"
So, mutual aid instead of exchange, is that the basic idea? I love mutual aid but I am not sure sure the structure to support it at scale has really been developed yet. Then again, we’ve barely tried so some experimentation is definitely in order. If it can be made to work it does seem like the ideal solution, but there’s still the question of how people will know how much of a given good to produce.