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Parallel eco-solidarity system.

The capitalism has big advantages : we never innovated, evolved that much since we are in capitalism. This is because it strongly incentivizes hard-work and innovation through its main characteristic, competition, in order to access to more liberty, more power. Humans being in competition can seem a natural thing, but nowadays, this causes 3 main problems :

- This is a worldwide competition, but we clearly don’t play fair. If this was a game, most of the players would start far behind an advantaged minority. Competition induces inequality, especially when all the players haven’t started simultaneously.
- To compete well, we don’t hesitate to do everything that can improve our situation, even if it’s at the expense of others. Nature don’t want to play…
- A lot of people just don’t want to compete, lifelong or not, they just want to fulfill their natural needs, but they can’t because the system strongly disadvantage them.

To counter these big problems, while keeping the advantages of capitalism, I propose to create what I call eco-solidary communities, or a more political version of eco-villages. I propose to found places where people can freely enter and exit, and most importantly can be ensured to get decent life conditions if they are motivated to work at fulfilling the essential needs of community and themselves (mostly agriculture, construction, clothing…). Those places will continuously receive totally free formations to the better agriculture and eco-construction techniques, so every people that come in can directly get involved into the eco-lifestyle, but also free education to sciences and technology. This resolves the 3 problems :

- People that don’t receive decent life conditions from the capitalism will finally get from another source. In addition, while living out of the need, those people will start to have real freedom of choice, and while having access to education, they will be able to really decide if they want to involve in the competition of capitalism (if they feel them capable) or not, eventually not right away.
- Those communities don’t have to be isolated, and for example can sell their agricultural surplus to the capitalism. In addition, if for example the half of the worldwide population can get better life conditions with those, this will greatly lessen the demand for industrial agriculture, building and clothing, which is a big deal for global warming and biodiversity destruction. I think that ultra-localisation of just these 3 productions, in addition with techniques that don’t need chemical inputs, is the main part of the response to ecological problems.
- Obviously, this will make people who simply don’t want to compete, or at least now, be able to get decent life, while freeing business for others.
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