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The Moneyless Manifesto By Mark Boyle


This a a copy of the book "The Moneyless Manifesto" that was released under the Creative Commons licence "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported".


This book was orginally uploaded to moneylessmanifesto.org for people to read for free but has since ceased to exist there. It can still be read in it's original form on archive.org.


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The Moneyless Manifesto is reproduced here (in a manner that is as close as possible to the original) for those on the smol internet that may find the content interesting and useful.


The book was written by Mark Boyle, who has written a number of other interesting books:


The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living (2010)

The Moneyless Manifesto (2012)

Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi (2015)

The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology (2019)


Table Of Contents


I.

Acknowledgements and Contributors


II.

Forward by Charles Eisenstein


Introduction.

Introduction

A reluctant author

All art is propaganda


Chapter 1. The Money Delusion.

The Money Delusion

Moneyless philosophy and the delusion of self

The Monetary Culture

Time isn’t money

Real community requires interdependency

Our disconnection from what we consume

The personal, social, ecological and economic consequences of money

The Division of Labour (DOL) married to money

Money causes waste

Gross inequality through the storing of value

Prostitution is to sex what buying and selling is to giving and receiving

Time to choose a new story?


Chapter 2. The Moneyless Menu.

The Moneyless Menu

The gift economy

The 100% local economy

Resource-based economy and “pay-it-forward”


Chapter 3. The POP model.

The POP model

Moneyless women and men


Chapter 4. Challenges and transitional strategies.

Challenges and transitional strategies

Current human culture

Addiction to industrialisation

Land ownership

Planning permission for low / zero impact living

Council tax – the tax on being alive

Insurance

Being a parent


Chapter 5. Labour and Materials.

Labour and Materials

Labour

Materials


Chapter 6. Land.

Land

Land of the free

Create an inspiring vision and pursue it passionately

Campaigning for realistic land reform


Chapter 7. Home.

Home

Free house

Cheap (or potentially free) to build, free to run houses

Compost toilets


Chapter 8. Food and Water.

Food and Water

Wild food foraging

Growing

Skipping

Other ideas

Water


Chapter 9. Washing

Washing

Bodies

Teeth and mouth

Hair

Clothes

Home


Chapter 10. Transport and Holiday accommodation.

Transport and Holiday accommodation

Transport

Accommodation when you get there


Chapter 11. Living Off-grid.

Living Off-grid

Electrical Energy

Cooking

Heating

Open source ecology

Information security


Chapter 12. Education.

Education

Home education

Freeskilling

Other projects and ideas


Chapter 13. Health and Sex.

Health and Sex

A personal anecdote

Localised healthcare options

Women’s health

Wild sex


Chapter 14. Clothing and Bedding.

Clothing and Bedding

Clothing

Bedding


Chapter 15. Leisure.

Leisure

Learn to play (and make) an instrument

Painting, parties and booze

Other fun stufff


Chapter 16. The Beginning is Nigh.

The Beginning is Nigh


Notes.

Notes

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