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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov
  • Date: Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:33:15 -0800 (PST)

Thanks ...............bobford


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--- On Sun, 11/9/08, Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net> wrote:

> From: Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
> Subject: RE: [Homestead] Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com, homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 9:20 AM
> > And, even if a person withdrew actually physical
> cash, where would the
> > person put it, and if the digital currency suffered
> great inflation, would
> > thast not devalue the physical 'cash'. Maybe
> something else you read in
> > the book could answer......
>
> The thing I got out of that was a better place for your
> money is in communal
> goods. In a later section he talks of career possibilities
> and mentions a
> carpenter who puts money into hand tools. He also mentions
> a substitute for
> money is to help people as an outright gift and accept
> gifts in return. His
> vision of the future is very drab and not at all
> encouraging but his
> suggestions could help in a non collapse situation where
> one has limited
> resources.
>
> In the beginning I did not think I would even finish the
> book but it soon
> became page after page of thought provoking material. I
> will post a couple
> more quotes later.
>
> Don Bowen KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html







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