• Hippie: “Right now we’re proving we don’t need corporations. We
don’t need money. This can become a commune where everyone just
helps each other.” Another Hippie: “Yeah, we’ll have one guy who
like, who like, makes bread. A-and one guy who like, l-looks out for
other people’s safety.” Stan: “You mean like a baker and a cop?”
First Hippie: “No no, can’t you imagine a place where people live
together and like, provide services for each other in exchange for
their services?” Kyle: “Yeah, it’s called a town.” Still another
hippie: “You kids just haven’t been to college yet. But just you
wait, this thing is about to get _huge_."
-- from "Die Hippie, Die," aired March 16, 2005
• "‘If we each grow a large crop of different food, we could all
trade with each other and eat for practically free.’ . . . Let’s
take the idea seriously. Hey, what if we all became small farmers
and traded with each other? As they say on the Internet: you’ll
never guess what happened next. Maybe instead of everybody growing
the same things, we could all produce what we’re best at and trade
with others for what we need. We could come up with a catchy name
for this, like ‘division of labor.’ And we would need somewhere to
exchange these goods with each other, which we could call a
‘market.’"
-- Robert Tracinski, Federalist, April 14, 2016