[Chapter_Fourteen] Chapter 14

[Rachel A. Buddeberg]

Not quite sure what protocols you might have breeched...  I found your question intriguing because I've wondered about that myself.  It seems that not everyone might become a successful farmer... Given our knowledge of where markets can lead - at least the unregulated kinds - maybe exchange might be better.  Historically, when buyer and seller haggled directly, prices tended to be fairer than now when most of the money I pay for athletic shoes (for example) goes into the pockets of the CEO of [fill in your least favorite shoe company].  I can't haggle - and neither can the person ask for higher wages.   Of course, there remain other power-differentials to watch out for in 1-on-1 markets.  I am sure that the craftsperson didn't feel as comfortable setting a price for a nobleperson... 

Rachel

On Nov 4, 2010, at 12:22 AM, ron stanford wrote:

> not quite sure how the idea exchange here is supposed to work, but just diving in: (as a relative neophyte), marvelously impressed by the gravity of fukuoka, the look of his 'farm', the food forest concept, seed balls, etc.  My first question v.a.v. discussion would be the macro level implications of.traditional property rights and markets/ exchange of 'surplus'.  Recognizing that permaculture, (seems to me), is something, (literally), of a ground up' concept, (the best e.g. acquittal of Foucault i've personally encountered...), i wonder about the convergence of enlightened 'ground up' food production and the perhaps not so comfortable atrophy of top down-large scale production/distribution models.
> In the new model, if one is not specifically a grower, or one in possession of land, (maybe a dedicated painter/writer/old school doctor, etc.), is there the comfortable possibility of making one's 'specialized' way, without being a 'farmer' oneself, (and not relying on charity, strictly speaking...), that is, an exchange, a market, where services/goods/produce can be priced?  
> 
> have no doubt breeched any number of protocols, but...testing, testing...is this thing on...? ...'--)
> 
> ron.  
> 
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Jay <protojay at gmail.com> wrote:
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