We are getting closer to having a viable product. Today the two of us who are not the designer did trials of the prototype. We are quite pleased with the results.
The next step is a trial with people who are not involved in the project in any way to see if there is real interest in this product. We can then begin to think about production and serious marketing of the product and getting it into distribution.
I continue to want to work on more alternative production, worker owned cooperative production for example, but I have not enough experience to know what to make much less how to distribute products.
We talk about local distribution of this product ourselves, and we certainly can do that. The others still hope for corporate investment in it, I believe, which might mean more money, but would mean less control and maybe no control and ultimately the moving of production off shore and into sweat shops.
What do people need? Food, of course, clothes, shelter, transportation. Are there opportunities in those areas? I feel blind and stupid today, as though someone else could see just what to do right now.
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