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Originally Posted by Jeb Stuart Thurmond
So-called "buy nothing groups" are an impossibly easy-to-use system to meet impossibly nice people who do impossibly nice things. Like give stuff away. Or search their attic for stuff just because someone asked if they could have it. For free. As in, without paying anything.
Now, economically, on one hand we already know that used goods are not valuable. If an item is a few years old, or has one single scratch on it, it ends up worth one tenth of what is was worth new and packaged.
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It just so happens I was reading about
a similar thing called a Library of Things. The idea is that communities buy one rarely used item to share, so that everyone doesn't end up buying a power cleaner that the Mexican only uses once or twice a year.
It's out and out communism in Martha's Vineyard. Terrifying to think of the impact on the economy. Jobs lost, wages down (more, I mean) and people won't be able to afford their own power jet, for example.