We must expand our sense of responsibility beyond our personal skillset to include co-ownership in all the Means of Production required for all of our physical needs.
We will buy land and tools and plants and animals and water rights to begin a Vertically Integrated Permaculture Mosaic. We will attract middle-income consumers to pre-pay for organic food (both groceries and restaurant) and many other products, such as ISP services that we will create within the VIPM. This is similar to crowd-funding. Those consumers will become real co-owners of the VIPM, and so will pay all the Costs of production (only for the specific products they want), but since they will not buy the product from us (they each own their % already), they will not be able to pay Profit or sales-Tax on that missing transaction. We will attract workers to commit to labor in the future (promise to pay with work) in return for their receiving co-ownership in the VIPM in the MoP for which they want the outputs (not necessarily for the MoP for which they have skills). Those workers are also consumers, and will become real co-owners of the VIPM, and so will pay all the Costs of production (only for the specific products they want), but since they will not buy the product from us (they each own their % already), they will not be able to pay Profit or sales-Tax on that missing transaction. We will *not* pay the consumers or the workers with money. We will *not* pay the consumers or the workers with product - they receive product as a "side-effect" of their co-owning the MoP. In other words, the owner of a milk-cow does not *buy* the milk from himself, he owns it already. Similarly, the co-owners of a milk dairy do not *buy* the milk from themselves, they each own their % already. This is a short (somewhat incomplete) description of how to proceed. Please ask questions and help me fix what is wrong with the idea. Sincerely, Patrick Anderson http://ImputedProduction.BlogSpot.com