Soon we will realize we, as consumers, pay all the costs of production yet have almost no control.
We will then gather together to begin buying and building farms and factories and mines and wells and forges and refineries and *all* the sources of all the products we need.
Every worker, as a consumer, will finally realize it is the ability to consume that we must protect, especially considering the robots will be taking all the jobs anyway...
The original and only valid purpose of production is product, not profit.
Profit measures the consumers' lack of ownership in the means of production and is fully eliminated when the consumers are the owners and accept the product itself as the return on that investment.
We are all upside-down, bullshit-backward when it comes to viewing success.
We think success is the ability to make others pay more than it really costs to produce what they need.
When I was a kid, living on my dad's farm, he told me how the federal government would pay farmers to *not* grow on land that was otherwise arable (you had to prove the land was usable for agriculture).
But it is not just government interference, property owners also destroy to increase price.
"'There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificates--died of malnutrition--because the food must rot, must be forced to rot.
The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath.'" -- The Grapes of Wrath
Scarcity increases profit, but profit is not really what we need.
All we really need are the products themselves.
We, the consumers, sit idly by, wondering why nobody will listen to us as we pay the corporations to dominate us directly and indirectly as they steer government as well.
We raise gardens and tinker in the back yard while the Capitalists organize further to own more and more of the land, water, genetics, designs, spectrum to provide overpriced, partial solutions that keep us dependent upon them.
Once we realize product is the original purpose of production, we will see that consumers can commit work or money to prepay for goods and services and become special shareholders who own part of that industry because they need that product, and thereby own the results even before they are produced.
This pre-allocates goods and services to the people who need them and eliminates the need to sell the product except for any surplus the group may choose to sell.
Using funds from consumers paying early allows us to buy land and tools without debt and build private cities under the direct control of those citizen-owners.
See http://CrossCrowdPredictiveProduction.github.io for more.
