Hi all
Really interesting discussion here I thought I would add some things that I've been thinking on myself but haven't put into words yet.
Floating price for goods and services
It annoys me sometimes when someone starts going to the markets and selling (candles, leather goods, beard wax) which is priced at the same price as someone who has been selling those same products for 10+ years. Potentially it's the consumers fault for not having perfect information but for my money there's plenty of information that you pick up over the years when you are making these things. I think that there could be a metric along the lines of
Cost of materials + cost of time * by a factor of years of experience or amount of products created.
That way if you buy an expensive artesian soap from a beginner soap maker and you burn yourself because they didn't sort the lye properly you won't then go and say "well all artesian soap is crap" you will say "well I got what I paid for".
I think with a system like this that opens up the opportunity for consumers and for creators to find their niche within the respective craft they are in. You know someone comes to your stall and says they don't want to pay $300 for one of a kind perfectly molded to your feet sandals. Perfect you can buy a pair from the apprentice for half that and when you wear them for a few years and feel like you need an upgrade you will be more inclined to go with the more expensive pair because you've seen the value in the good or service.
So I think the same thing could be said for bootcamps and the like. I don't know much about them but I think that just because someone has been to your bootcamp and wants to start their own they should be allowed but that should be reflected in the price. That way if someone wants to come to your bootcamp and it's outside the price that they would be willing to pay (or the area) they might be more inclined to try a bootcamp from someone where they can learn a watered down version and see if it's for them or not but you as a salesperson for that service should recommend them to those people (that are qualified or franchised or whatever) so that they can earn a bit on their homestead and help make it more manageable to live on their land.
New gold rush
I think until there is money to be made over and above what can be made from the land reliably with other crops or forestry or whatever not much will change. It's difficult to take a patch of land and try something new on it when you have insane upfront costs to try and manage. In the same way developers buy land to put on forestry or farming if you had the 50 youngest fittest hardest people that ate pain and suffering for breakfast you could work with them to develop blocks and sell them as semi established permaculture bases.
If you could find the line with marginal farmland to where you could add value to it that would make it easier for more affluent people to jump in and start living their best life (I would guess if you could sell the land as having enough work done so that you can live off the land with near to no annual expenses then everything they do over and above that initial work would be the profit they could add to the land). From what I've witnessed where I live if enough people gravitate to a certain area and all have certain belief systems then that is reflected into the community and subsequently the goods and services of the people adhering to that lifestyle are valued (people will pay a premium for oddball produce).
Imagine that mercenary permaculturalists that just terraform forestry and farmland into permaculture spaces that they can then sell to the highest bidder which then transforms the local community.
Just a thought I've got more ideas but save them for another day!
