Finally an honest alternative

How do people create what they need to live today? The only answer is they do some service that generates a tradable form of currency. How is this dishonest? Generating income isn't dishonest but it gives those people who are dishonest a significant advantage. Imagine an auto mechanic who plays by the rules and does work to his best ability but his competitor down the street gyps everyone they service and overcharges every customer. Someone might point out the dishonest competitor might go out of business because of his bad reputation, but that isn't the case as we see today. If massive companies like Enron, Tyco and all the horrible merchandise from China can outcompete anything manufactured, reap huge unwarranted rewards then how can anyone say honest guys finish first?

I'm sure there are some examples of stellar companies, but the really large monopolies generate the greatest profit, never the greatest product. Is there anyway around the profit model of business? There is, but it takes some imagination and knowledge. The proponents of a resource economy have to know that a truly free market would generate abundant resources by breaking apart corrupt monopolies. Resource economists also have to know the resources available could support everyone if there were truly owned equally by the whole world. Imagination is needed during the transition period.

During the transition period people have to recognize there is nothing wrong in generating profit if your mission is to create systems that are self sufficient. Until the resource economy is adopted around the world the only way to create new communities is by giving or making profit from some system. Within the systems the currency system doesn't work, but to get anything new the self sufficient system has to generate more than the community needs or the community needs to donate more than the system creates. Imagination is also needed to piece together the many ways transition can occur from the technological, organizational and educational perspectives.