Cohousing-L Mailing List: economic crisis

[Gerald Manata (gmanata2003]

     The current economic meltdown is not going to be just another recession, 
part of the business cycle. The economic system has been on a slow, steady 
downturn for the last 35 years, with Wall Street and the government using a 
number of tricks in the last ten years, of which the $700 billion dollar 
bailout is only the latest, to prolong the inevitable. The years ahead are 
going to be painful and long
     Unfortunately, cohousing is not ready for it.
     In an individualistic society like ours, groups have an advantage, from 
street gangs up to the largest corporations.One of the many fantasies I had 
about a movement like cohousing was that, once it got big enough, we could 
start creating our own industries, employing our own people, engaging in 
inter-community trade, with our own banking system and our own money. This may 
have helped cushion us from what is to follow.