This post is a suggestion of ideas and ways that we could create a society that's based on bestowal, where we all seek to benefit others instead of ourselves. The goal is to increase the connection between us, foster cooperation, collaboration and unity, increase efficiencies and decrease costs, while focusing on our basic needs - food, water, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education etc. I'm sure you have your own ideas.
Here are some notes about CLOTHING:
- Have Community Clothing:
- Clothes For Everyone: Clothing is one of our basic needs and everyone on earth should have the clothes they need. We don't need thousands of clothes, and we don't even need fashionable clothes, we need simple, practical, durable and weather appropriate clothes that meet our basic needs.
- Second Hand Clothes: A system could be set up where people could get and use second hand clothes, especially for items that they don't use regularly, such as gardening clothes, extremely cold weather clothes, formal attire clothes etc.
- Have Community Laundry:
- Laundry Facilities: You could have community laundry facilities where people could wash and dry their clothes.
- Pick Up/Drop Off At The Laundry: You could have a service where people could drop off/pick their laundry at the laundry facilities.
- Pick Up/Drop Off At Home: You could have a service where laundry could be picked up/dropped off at people's homes.
- Efficiencies: Efficiencies would be gained in several ways:
- Saves Money: People wouldn't have to buy expensive, unnecessary, redundant, fashionable clothes that they may wear only once, or buy expensive washers and dryers for their homes.
- Saves Space: People wouldn't have closets full of clothes that they barely wear, or have washers and dryers that take up space in their homes.
- Better For Nature: With fewer clothes being made, and with fewer washers and dryers being made, there'd be less of a drain on Nature.
What ideas do you have for building a new society that's based on cooperation, collaboration and bestowal? In everything we do, we should seek to benefit others instead of ourselves.
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