I’m trying to find ideas for what each reader of this question could do given a small loan that could re-“factory” there local economy.

I don’t have capital, but I think that some production canning equipment could be used in our local farms. I wonder if I can invest in that instead of an index fund.

And I have always wondered where all the little various size rubber grommets and stuff come from … like perhaps it would be interesting to start micro-factories with each just making one thing. Like drawing back manufacturing locally instead of waiting for mega-corps to do it.

I think asking this question is getting a list of stuff like that could be helpful to our various locales.

  • TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.comOPEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I really appreciate all the answers.

    I know that none of it makes perfect financial rational sense to try to create a new industrialization on a local scale at first. But I believe that as global systems rewire themselves with this new world that we can become more resilient by doing things that might not be 100% rational.

    If I may quote poet Marge Piercy

    The will to be totally rational
    is the will to be made out of glass and steel:
    and to use others as if they were glass and steel.

    sometimes irrational is better; better to not treat each other as resources; we can build us.