However, it is worth noting that people involved in a portfolio of activities, implicated in the community, the local polity and spendin. Moreover, such a community, which values all kinds of social contribution, is less likely to be faced with exclusion and the risk of social collapse. Instead of ignoring the rise of this alternative, how much the better to embrace and encourage the positive elements whilst seeking to mitigate the downside. Indeed, some people already have a portfolio of paid and voluntary jobs. Most importantly, the structure to support alternative initiatives.
Government is the main problem.
It is about fifty years out of date. Government is not about to accept experiments or a fuzzing of boundaries. Desperately clutching to the old definitions of work, growth and life, governments block change, each time trying to chop away a little bit more on the spending here or there, whilst clutching at the sand which is slipping through their fingers. For a new form of government Governments need to be much humbler- to realise that they do not know everything, and hence accept that there is always a need to discover, experiment and learn. All such initiatives, and many more, need to be discussed.