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[dissonant_one]

my brother posed an interesting question to me today. while terribly cliche'd, it remains a question that i find interesting in that i cannot recall the last time i actually thought about what my answer would since high school. things change as frequently and as rapidly as people, so i redirect this question to you;(no silly answers such as "i

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[novabird]

mm...money. not a big fan of money, you know. but i imagine i would set up a workshop, not entirely dissimilar from one a friend is fixing up, but rather than machinery & tools for machinery it'd be centered around the textile arts (creating fabric, making it into things, dyeing, etc.), as well as other 'domestic' arts like baking and gardening and bicycles and other things that i think necessary if one is to live a simpler (and what i feel is for me more 'whole') life. basically a station to encourage people to become more self-sufficient and educate themselves and share knowledge.
then i would work on creating these stations about the country, and about the world. i think they would need to also include some kind of self-care or nurse practitioner facility, as well. and a centralization for barter and other opportunities like apprenticeships.
i would also put money into transit, as well as large-scale campaigns to get people out of their cars and onto their feet/onto bikes/trains/buses, etc, and just generally simplify their lives in ways that require fewer resources be wasted.
from here i'm not sure. i would try to focus on the de-specialization of our lives (i.e. i am a computer programmer and i buy all the things/services i need rather than doing most of it myself). i feel money is a really shoddy form of stored value, so i would work towards doing away with that. what else? ride bikes. feed people i love. dance. go hobo-ing about the countryside and cities, too. across the world. go back to school.
-N*