I am a consumer, if there are no consumer goods I am not living to my full potential.
Who is gonna chose to go back to a lack of things because you don't have the wherewithall to make them yourself?
Nobody wants to give up consumer goods, and with proper management they won't have to.
Are you suggesting that all forms of INDUSTRY be converted to EMPLOYEE OWNED HOLACRACIES and run like public utilities for the common-good?
Are you suggesting we convert to a neutral monetary system like GOLD and or BITCOIN?
Although this sounds pretty nice, I still don't see how it's going to fix the population collapse problem.
Kinda, many of those words lose their meanings in the absence of money, and violent domination by those that have a bunch of it.
No.
This gives a general outline, but gets bogged down in details better left to the those on the scene, imo.
I'd think population collapse would be a plus, on the whole.
Bad for those that got to go, but more for the rest of us.
So, what population collapse?
Without electricity and oil, the earth can sustain about 553.96 million souls.
LINK
If you want to stay alive, you will have to learn to live without electricity and oil.
Why?
Those people are not gonna just stop working, before the sun micronovas, anyways.
Where does your food come from? (petrochemicals)
How is your food transported to your town? (petrochemicals)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_oil
Baah, don't believe everything you read on the internet,...
Oil gets replaced by alcohol, just like Brazil has done.
Gardens will increase from now on.
Look at all the anarchists.
They grow gardens and give away most of the produce.
Let go of your attachment to the old ways, eh?
It was mostly based on lies, anyway.
Brazil relies heavily on petrochemical fertilizer to grow their alcohol.