TABLE 21-1: Critical distinguishing features
| Global imperial economy | Local living economies |
| The defining purpose is to make money for owners to increase their power and their claims to the resources of the many. | The defining purpose is to secure fulfilling livelihoods for all and increase the generative power of the whole. |
| The guiding mantra is create global monopolies to eliminate local choice, take all you can get and pass costs to others. | The guiding mantra is create beneficial local options, take only what you need, and accept responsibility for the whole. |
| The rules favor absentee owners, monopoly-scale enterprises, financial speculators, rights of property, and central planning by global corporations. | The rules favor participating owners, human-scale enterprises, wealth creators, rights of people, and self-organization by people and communities. |
| Denying any responsibility for public interests, proponents seek to secure impermeable boundaries around the exclusive private interests of corporations and their wealthiest owners, while demanding that communities eliminate any borders protective of public interests. | Recognizing the need of all living entities to protect and balance individual and community interests, proponents support both firms and communities in establishing managed protective borders that support, fair, balanced and mutually beneficial exchange. |
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