Reply #134: Not true

[northzax]

There are certainly ways to seriously mitigate your participation in the Markets, if you so wish. I have an aunt and uncle who live on a commune. They sell just enough to pay taxes, everything else is self produced or bartered. The Amish also barely participate. I have friends who live in a communal living community in the dc suburbs. Twenty people collectively own property, those who work outside the home have their pay put into a central account. Those who don't work for pay barter their labor to earn their keep. It's not, as the song goes, something I'd recommend, but it is a way to live.