Gerald Celente talks in the clip below of lighting a candle locally made, which calls to my mind three things: 1. Can one light a nonlocal candle? 2. More seriously, Bastiat’s Candlestick makers’ petition, though itself a fun parody, and, 3. More seriously yet, that which other quarters have been talking about for quite a while: what I’ll call “microfacturing” for neologistic fun. See Kevin Carson’s The Homebrew Industrial Revolution, for one notable and lengthy discussion, with humor.
Large inventories, high capital oulays, and high overhead have the same effect on mass-production industry that shit has on a human body bloated by constipation.
A. Neighborhood and Backyard Industry
B. The Desktop Revolution and Peer Production in the Immaterial Sphere
C. The Expansion of the Desktop Revolution and Peer Production into the Physical Realm
C1. Open-Source Design: Removal of Proprietary Rents from the Design Stage, and Modular Design.
C2. Reduced Transaction Costs of Aggregating Capital.
C3. Reduced Capital Outlays for Physical Production.
D. The Microenterprise
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