4) What's Wrong With Buying & Selling?

There’s nothing wrong with buying and selling. The weakness of that paradigm however, is that it squanders the opportunity presented by economic exchange to strengthen a community.

With the buying & selling paradigm, you have 2 people, usually strangers, and they could be anybody: who they are as individuals is irrelevant; their spiritual and social health doesn’t matter; their ability to be honest and accountable doesn’t matter. All that is needed for that paradigm to function properly is that one stranger can pay for a product and the other stranger can take the money.

In ShareFare, by contrast, ALL that matters are who the individuals are, what the states of their spiritual and social health are, and what their abilities to be honest and accountable are. When a ShareFare transaction is successfully enacted, 2 strangers have had the opportunity to acknowledge their interdependence, re-affirm their commitments to their community, and nourish their sense of being fair and considerate people.