Rusty writes why community is our weapon against control by corporations in Why Community Matters:
This, finally, is why community matters. The only potential way out of this mousetrap we've created for ourselves is to actually speak directly to each other. Town meetings, open hearings, internet communities, places where people may actually speak as human individuals to other human individuals; these are the only places that we may examine what we have decided will be our reality, and the only places we may possibly decide to change that reality.
This is the first compelling comment, about why societies invented capitalism. Both Rusty's article and the comment make sense, and (like woofbot who replied to the comment), I don't see them as incompatible: people can still use money to virtualize wealth; it's the power of our immortal, wealthy, powerful imaginary friends that's the problem.
