> but you still need someone to consume your product
Do we? We're not trying to make a lot of money, just enough to get by. And we're talking about an entire economy here, not about the profitability of an individual business. The whole point is that people in this model don't really care about how much money they're making (or, put another way, they place a very high value on their time).
The question is whether there would be something fundamentally wrong with a society in which people spent very little, but were nonetheless productive doing "their own thing".
. . . they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid . . . --Micah 4:3b-4a
Do we? We're not trying to make a lot of money, just enough to get by. And we're talking about an entire economy here, not about the profitability of an individual business. The whole point is that people in this model don't really care about how much money they're making (or, put another way, they place a very high value on their time).
The question is whether there would be something fundamentally wrong with a society in which people spent very little, but were nonetheless productive doing "their own thing".