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I think the smartest thing we can do, economically, is for states to lead the way, providing huge , multi-year tax breaks for “made local” enterprises, and more, “hand made” and local. It’s only expensive relative to machine made crap in China. But people are …
getting tired of this mass produced bullshit that breaks in 6 months. That’s why sites like Etsy are so popular. Why not scale up that tendency? One small hand many lamp company can happily employ 20 or 30 people. And they don’t have to grow huge and ship their …
wares globally. They can make a very nice living selling just within a single state.
What has killed us all, economically, was not providing barriers to consolidation and monopolization. I could tweet for months on how many places you see it sucking the life out of society. And who benefits? A handful of super elites that @anandwrites can sell …
books about. But it’s not that hard to change that. Look at how tax law was used to foster the web? Without that tweak, Amazon wouldn’t exist. The same trick can be used to now diminish Amazon’s reach, by reinvigorating local, small scale manufucturing. The …
ripple effects are enormous. A small producer of lamps or furniture needs space, raw materials, power, adhesives, packaging, lighting, and all the things that drove America for the past 1000 years. We created enormous industries around supporting other industries. …
ALL of that went away as giant companies outsourced everything to other countries. That’s where your jobs went. And we never talk about it, because it pisses off the oligarchs who own much of the media, as well as the means of production. They hate to talk about …
themselves being selfish, destructive, ahd short sighted pricks. So they never do.
Just imagine how many people could have jobs as roasters and baristas if we tax-incentivized coffee bars using only locally roasted beans. Checked out the price of Folgers, lately? The stores could sell canned coffee at HALF the price and still make a nice living …
(i’ve done the research). Again, apply this to all the sectors of your town? Local Craft breweries were a revolution! But we once again allowed consolidation and bigness to suck them up too, so it all became one more financial intrument in the venture/wall …
street/hedge fund game of pump and dump innovation. That’s the fascist culture that eats everything good that we do or invent. Because we let them do it. We got some benefit, but not that much. Now THEY are the problem, NOT capitalism. But we can kick them out. …
There is plenty of money willing to play by new rules if they can still make a Modest profit. Back in the day, a 10% annual return was awesome. We can return society to lower expectations if we just stop playing their game. The Modest tax structure must BAR them …
from entering the game. But they can certainly have limited ownership of local companies that might lose their favored tax status if their ownership stakes break the chartered rules against bigness. Modest profit for modest value. “Modest Profit” might be a great …
related program or agency name.
