Weakening security of supply in the economic system – and possible solutions

Security of supply with everyday goods has entered our consciousness.

At the latest with the discussion about a possible large-scale power cut, many people have become aware of this topic. Long delivery times for some products are currently showing us how vulnerable our economic system is when supply chains are interrupted.

The state of the existing economic system has not only been shaky since these days. This has been developing for several decades and is shown strikingly by the example of the retail trade. The following documentary video illustrates this:

Auslaufmodell Supermarkt? (The supermarket – a discontinued model?) | Documentary | ARTE (German)

Perhaps it now becomes clear to us how morally depraved our economic system is – although the economic system only manifests itself in this way through the people involved in it.

For those who study the philosophy of Nikola Tesla and Burkhard Heim, the effect of the industrially manufactured products from this field on one’s own health stands out clearly.

“If you want to understand the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration. Our entire biological system, the brain and the Earth itself, work on the same frequencies.”

Nikola Tesla

Inventor

What can we do?

With regard to this economic system, each individual can do something to either preserve or restore their mental, spiritual and physical health. Let us look at some possibilities based on a so-called “maturity model”:

• Choosing your suppliers and producers with regard to the quality of their products and their ethical conduct. That may seem time-consuming, but it definitely pays off in the long term. You can proceed in small steps and, for example, buy from geographically distant producers and have the products delivered through the perfectly devised logistics system of the Universal Postal Union and its parcel services. The other option is to find regional suppliers with whom you have direct contact when obtaining the products. There are already numerous initiatives here that exchange information and help one another.
• Gradually covering your own needs again on your own responsibility. This satisfies your own creativity when you find out what it is like to bake your own bread or make your own butter.

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However, these first two steps have decisive disadvantages. Each individual has to take care of all the details, which soon brings the person concerned to the limits of their capacity. Here we need to learn from our economic system, namely to apply the success factors “division of labour” and logistics, to name just two. That brings us to step 3:

• Building communities – first also supraregional, then increasingly regional and then growing together locally – which, well coordinated, together provide what each individual in the community needs. This makes it possible for everyone in the community to do what they like doing and are good at. However, it also takes a good portion of trust to engage in togetherness again. And it takes the willingness to engage in planned coordination and organisation, called logistics. You will find more on logistics in the description below.

Without wanting to go into more depth here, this much in advance: with such a well-designed form of organisation, it is possible to cover your daily needs comfortably with a maximum of 20 working hours. The time freed up can then be used for relaxed get-togethers or for your own development.

I would be delighted if this has aroused your interest. Feel free to contact me via the comment function here (visible to members after logging in) or by email to g.herrmann@bewusst.mensch.at

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Logistics information (German)