Issues

Cost of Living and the Economy

Need less money, and need it less often.

The short version. Our full stance on this issue is still being written. Until then, this is what the Law of the Earth and the Blueprint already say about it.

Prices keep climbing because nearly everything we need to live now hangs on one fragile, distant system: long supply chains, a single power grid, and money borrowed into existence. When that system wobbles, every household feels it at once.

The Earth Party's answer is the Multi-Layered Economy. Keep every age of industry alive, each layer complete in itself, so that basic needs are met close to home. The village aims to be mostly self-sufficient in food, water, clothing, shelter, and healing. The township does the same for tools and craft, and the city for heavy industry. It's a goal, not a mandate, and no imports are banned.

The village layer runs mostly without money at all, on shared work and gift. Where money is needed, it should be created for one purpose: to reward work that heals the Earth, like planting trees, cleaning up toxic waste, and restoring waterways.

And the Law lifts the heaviest weight most people carry. The Great Jubilee offers every person a one-time discharge of all debts, financial and otherwise, upon accepting the Law of the Earth.