According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the bottom 40% of American households take home only 11% of the national income, driving 21% of all national consumer spending— and spending nearly double our share of the national wealth— while relying on compounding debt to bridge the gap.
DirectingIf we could direct our cash flow toward an independentour own community, we could turn our income, federal benefits, and local spending into a wealth-building cycle, capitalizing and capitalize a village that builds wealth and supports itself, without the broken infrastructure and system that hinders financial growth.
We can build, own, and run a village on a virtuous cycle—Villages That Build Themselves (VTBT).
Why Villages That Build Themselves Work
A VTBT works because the people whothat want to live in the villagethere can organize it, fund it, and build it themselves. They’ll create, creating jobs, businesses, and a functioning economy that benefits everyone in the village.
Additionally, it builds wealth, and resilience, and aids the United States economy by way of lower taxes, and shared infrastructure, and resources, just to name a few. Residents ofPeople in the village wouldwill still have individual property rights, and spend U.S. currency, and buildbuilding wealth by directing spending towards the village and its residents rather than multinational corporations. Ideally, 80% of village spending will be local, including by way of housing, clothing, and food processing.
The aim is not to be totally cut off from the global economy but to optimize products and services among the village, allowing the VTBT to act as a resilient node in the global supply chain while building the wealth in the village. The VTBT economy is based on locally owned, free market capitalism. While the village systems reinforce each other, they can be modified, scaled, included or excluded to meet real- world needs.
