Gandhi's Answer to Financial Collapse

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I am not condoning the plan laid out in this editorial. I'm not sold on the idea of "trustee". Our American myth is that
our liberty guarantees us the right to our property. But we own nothing. The government makes money off of everything
that comes into our possession. I would love to see an alternative to the mass addiction to, "I want it!"
Curious what others think of this concept?

http://www.truth-out.org/economic-crisis-or-nonviolent-opportunity-gandhis-answer-financial-collapse/1313084331

The real purpose of an economic system is to guarantee to every person in its circle the fundamentals of physical existence (food, clothing, shelter) and the tools of meaningful work so that they can get on with the business of living together and working out our common destiny. This was Gandhi’s vision, among others’. We can no longer afford to ignore him in this sector any more than we can ignore his spectacular contributions to peace and security.

By the time Gandhi’s thinking on the subject matured in his classic treatise, Hind Swaraj, or Indian Home Rule (1909), he saw that our present economic system is being driven by a dangerous motive: the multiplication of wants. Because these wants are artificial—being that they created by advertising—and can never be satisfied, it creates what economist David Korten has called a “phantom economy” of fantastic financial manipulations that of course can never endure.

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1. IMHO - the whole point to the founding here or in France is that

The government is NOT separate from the people.

The government is The People & vice verse.

This is the thing that is lost in modernity.

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2. Great, if you don't mind another Berlin wall

I am not condoning the plan laid out in this editorial. I'm not sold on the idea of "trustee". Our American myth is that
our liberty guarantees us the right to our property. But we own nothing.

Well, if we own nothing, then who owns our bodies? Do they belong to the state, too?

The East Germans thought that way. The Berlin wall was built so that property couldn't escape to the West.