[ExI] powerful image

[William Flynn Wallace]

How about if a neighborhood forms a collective and places grocery orders
every week (or some other time frame) and a van rented or owned by the
collective goes to the stores, loads up, and delivers to the neighborhood
(to the doorstep for the disabled, or to a central location for everyone
else)?  I think you can rent a van for a few hours, say half a day, very
cheaply.  Or someone could go into business and do this for several
collectives.
 bill w

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 10:31 AM SR Ballard via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Addition of money allows for grocery delivery. If something like Shipt
> could accept food stamps + waive delivery fee (bill govt instead) then I
> think that whole issue would be basically solved.
>
> > On Jun 16, 2020, at 9:52 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> > Subject: Re: [ExI] powerful image
> >
> >> On 15/06/2020 18:25, spike wrote:
> >> ... England, where there was a big BLM rally in London.
> >
> >> ...What I don't understand is, why?
> >
> >> ...So I don't understand the need, or the point, of such a rally in
> London.
> >
> > They are hardly going to change anyone's mind, or introduce a startling
> new
> > viewpoint, as everyone here already agrees with them.
> >
> > --
> > Ben Zaiboc
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> > Hi Ben, everyone in the US would agree with them too, if BLM manages to
> > distance themselves from the rioters and anarchists.  Their biggest
> problem
> > at the moment is that the other groups are taking advantage of BLM.
> >
> > This rioting is going to cause all manner of problems:
> >
> > https://twitter.com/i/status/1272359799028514816
> >
> > It really has me thinking of ways to deal, such as reviving a lot of
> > food-processing "technology" that has been lost over the decades of
> > progress.  I remember visiting on my great grandmother's farm back in the
> > 60s and early 70s.  She lived out there with her daughter.  The nearest
> > grocery store was about half an hour away by car.  They did a lot of
> > preserving and food processing out there, skills people don't generally
> have
> > today.
> >
> > But what if... rioting causes food deserts in some of the bigger cities
> and
> > the insurance company decides to pull out, so they never restore the
> local
> > outlets.  The building owner decides to just leave everything as is, for
> a
> > bitter reminder to the community: turn off the electricity and walk away
> > from it.  Soon the nearest grocery store might be half an hour drive
> away,
> > but now there are a million families that need it rather than my great
> > grandmother's community which had about 50 families, all of which had
> (and
> > used) the ability to go two weeks between trips there.
> >
> > We have kicked around the idea of a minimum basic income, OK sure.  But
> that
> > doesn't do any good if there is no place left to trade the cash for basic
> > supplies.
> >
> > spike
> >
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