Companies either extract the wealth from a community, or develop the wealth of a community.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller
“Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.” Milton Friedman
Stacy Mitchell on how to break up the monopolies.
Why it's important to eat local: develops the local wealth, much more cost-effective.
How local production diffuses wealth instead of concentrating it.