May 16, 2023·edited May 16, 2023Liked by Tereza Coraggio
I confess to having Bad Thoughts about AirBnB, after seeing what it's doing to my little town here in Vermont. More and more houses are being bought up by flatlanders (our dismissive term for people from out of state) and converted into what are essentially small hotels. This is coupled with the decades-old trend of outsiders buying vacation homes here that are occupied for two weeks per year.
This has led to a situation where at least half the houses on some of the streets here are unoccupied much of the time, and where there is very little housing available now for people who want to live and work here full-time. House prices have also gone up about 80% in the last four years, some of which may be due to this hotel-izing trend, but some of it is probably due to Covid-related panic buying by city-fleeing flatlanders who pay cash and buy houses sight-unseen.
Your idea of travel-based education is attractive, but I'm not able to see how this can help the situation I'm describing.
>> What is a feminine economy? It’s a system of exchange that places the happiness, resilience
>> and security of families at its center, without taking that away from anyone else.
Do you think perhaps one of the reasons why you get pushback or dismissal from much of the male half(-ish) of the human race on this proposal is precisely because it doesn't take anything away from anyone else?
Do they recoil at thoughts of:
No more "conquest";
No amassing of great personal wealth (as opposed to community wealth) at the expense of others;
No (or greatly reduced) ability to direct and control the labor & living conditions of others on a
massive scale, for generations, due to the unequal ability to wield economic power over them?
Is the (predominantly, but not exclusively male) urge towards these things the root cause of most of the problems in the "systems of living" we currently have available now?
Under "feminine economy" I think it is essential to include the principle and policies based on "the earth is the birthright of all people" - see my Radical Middle Award winning book The Earth Belongs to Everyone here under Resources / Books as free pdf: www.theIU.org
I confess to having Bad Thoughts about AirBnB, after seeing what it's doing to my little town here in Vermont. More and more houses are being bought up by flatlanders (our dismissive term for people from out of state) and converted into what are essentially small hotels. This is coupled with the decades-old trend of outsiders buying vacation homes here that are occupied for two weeks per year.
This has led to a situation where at least half the houses on some of the streets here are unoccupied much of the time, and where there is very little housing available now for people who want to live and work here full-time. House prices have also gone up about 80% in the last four years, some of which may be due to this hotel-izing trend, but some of it is probably due to Covid-related panic buying by city-fleeing flatlanders who pay cash and buy houses sight-unseen.
Your idea of travel-based education is attractive, but I'm not able to see how this can help the situation I'm describing.
>> What is a feminine economy? It’s a system of exchange that places the happiness, resilience
>> and security of families at its center, without taking that away from anyone else.
Do you think perhaps one of the reasons why you get pushback or dismissal from much of the male half(-ish) of the human race on this proposal is precisely because it doesn't take anything away from anyone else?
Do they recoil at thoughts of:
No more "conquest";
No amassing of great personal wealth (as opposed to community wealth) at the expense of others;
No (or greatly reduced) ability to direct and control the labor & living conditions of others on a
massive scale, for generations, due to the unequal ability to wield economic power over them?
Is the (predominantly, but not exclusively male) urge towards these things the root cause of most of the problems in the "systems of living" we currently have available now?
Under "feminine economy" I think it is essential to include the principle and policies based on "the earth is the birthright of all people" - see my Radical Middle Award winning book The Earth Belongs to Everyone here under Resources / Books as free pdf: www.theIU.org
Excellent, thanks Tereza. Much to take in there
This is so anti-political.
I love it.