*Man, TIME magazine, which used to be the Poet Laureate of Middle-Class America, is getting weirder and weirder lately. Maybe because they themselves lack a business model... you just gotta wonder how many former employees of the Time-Life empire are living lives of pure Favela Chic today.
*This little article is a Favela Chic anthem. From a FORBES columnist. "The Dropout Economy." Remember how well that dropout stuff worked in the '60s? Well, Baby Boomers, after they starve great-grandpa's social security programs, that's where you will be retiring. Into a resilient dropout commune. It's all about the geodomes cut from car hoods and the Walden Pond vegetable garden.
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1971133_1971110_1971126-1,00.html
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"Imagine a future in which millions of families live off the grid, powering their homes and vehicles with dirt-cheap portable fuel cells. As industrial agriculture sputters under the strain of the spiraling costs of water, gasoline and fertilizer, networks of farmers using sophisticated techniques that combine cutting-edge green technologies with ancient Mayan know-how build an alternative food-distribution system.
"Faced with the burden of financing the decades-long retirement of aging boomers, many of the young embrace a new underground economy, a largely untaxed archipelago of communes, co-ops, and kibbutzim that passively resist the power of the granny state while building their own little utopias...."
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1971133_1971110_1971126,00.html#ixzz0iH4rFrOu
