Intentional Waste

Intentional Waste (Lean Logic)

Instead of having to produce to common competitive standards, it will instead be able to choose labour-intensive, inefficient methods: it will cultivate land as it wishes, work with whatever loving craftsmanship it knows, take time off, make music, think, sleep, cherish philosophy, control its own population, know its own political economy and ecology well enough to understand the deep ambiguous meaning of waste, and recover the intelligence of the early cultures that knew that they had to destroy, or waste, or spend on spectaculars, because their ecology and their lives depended on it.