Comments on: The Role of Money in a Civic Provisioning Economy https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-money-in-a-civic-provisioning-economy/2014/05/12 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 14 May 2014 06:36:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: Marvin Brown https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-money-in-a-civic-provisioning-economy/2014/05/12/comment-page-1#comment-694607 Wed, 14 May 2014 06:36:15 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=38883#comment-694607 Walter,

Let me clarify the “logic” of my argument. The sentence that you quote is not a descriptive sentence about the economy, but rather a stipulative sentence defining an economics of provision. We define things like justice or human rights all the time in this manner. Sorry you took this as a descriptive statement. On the other hand, you write about the “purpose” of the economy as though it were a fact, rather than an assumption. You seem to agree with my “observation,” about the current system, but it seems like a strange use of the word “purpose” here, at least as I understand the term. I don’t think we disagree on our observations about the current economy, but we may about what kind of framework would move us beyond it. My proposal is a civic economics of provision. Actually, I don’t think that a civic economics of provision was proposed by “dirty commie pinkos” 45 years ago.

]]> By: Walter Haugen https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-money-in-a-civic-provisioning-economy/2014/05/12/comment-page-1#comment-694109 Wed, 14 May 2014 00:11:07 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=38883#comment-694109 “An Economics of Provision begins with an assumption that the purpose of the economy is to provide people with the provisions they need for a good life.” Your basic assumption is wrong. The purpose of the economy is to take resources from working people and distribute them to the elites. You even allude to it in a later sentence. “The current system is designed to increase global warming, deplete resources, and like most other systems of provision today, increase the inequality between the rich and the poor.” You should follow your own logic.

Piketty is all the rage now, but he isn’t saying anything us “dirty commie pinkos” weren’t saying 45 years ago.

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