I have no background, and indeed practically no interest, in accounts, markets, capital, gains, futures, profits...all these fall into the category of things talked about by adults on Peanuts - Wanh wanh, wanh wanh wanh. But it occurs to me, as I 'pay' a friend of mine for some on-call computer work with canned air, that this is how it should work.
In some post apocalyptic world when there are no longer the means to produce all the necessary components to build new parts, but there is still the vast sea of left over computers that our consume-and-dispose society has left behind, he would live off of patronage. Like back in the old days. A direct, living economy with natural consequences. He tweaks my computer to get it working again, I give him some of my extra potatoes and a bag of nails. It's a kind of world where people who's work was no longer valuable would simply go away.
It's because they had no recourse to the enforcement of their version of 'the economy'. Like forcing people off of their farms into cities so they can get jobs in factories for money to buy food from farms.
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