“ To recap, the independent peasant farmer or craftsman lived and worked on the land and in community, learning and developing skills which enabled him/her to take control over and responsibility for their subsistence needs and those of the family and community in which they lived, directly from the land and surrounding countryside. Inherited skills and natural raw materials were available from outside the money economy. Although they might sell a surplus for money, they did not produce for a money income. Throughout human history, for most people most of the time, the idea of employment, of working under orders for money, making things you would never use, with machines and materials you do not understand, in order to buy consumer goods made to the specifications of strangers, was incomprehensible.
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