I honestly can’t say I got into the nitty gritty of where the donations actually go, but I can tell you that from what I saw there, things like constant recycling, a full media tent, effectively a canteen with cooks and shelves, a music tent and many other good things, that the money is most likely being put back into the well being of the encampment.

With you all the way , life should and can be much simpler to live.
I have a saying that goes
“life is too long”

Nobody is all that keen on things like improved productivity and growth and the like apart from the fat cats that don’t have to put in the hard graft to make it so, the vast moajority of people would rather they had more time to spend with their families and friends and hobbies and interests than see a share price go up – assuming they had the basics in life to a sufficient standard, but again, I hope that a decent living for all would be part of the new design, not just those who are ‘successful’.

The words may be useful to categorise what happened before but we don’t need them any more, they carry too much baggage and what one person means by them can be quite different to another’s take.

As an example, many have called me a marxist after I’ve ranted to them awhile, but I reject the label because while some of my views seem to run roughly in parallel with some of the little I know of marxism, it imples all sorts of things about my views that are probably quite wrong and I see no sense in studying it in depth just to decide whether or not I am one.

So yes, let’s ditch the old labels unless used in a historical context, we need something new that may well take facets from all the old systems, but isn’t any of them.

Arguably they’ve all been tried and found wanting anyway, apart from a resource-based economy that is… can we try that for 100 years and see how it goes ?

Buying food and other essentials is one thing (unless we ditch currency altogether, which I favour) but I hope that our future civilisation will be based more on people doing things and being things rather than just buying things and then wanting another, slightly better version of the same thing a few months later, which seems to be the main focus of life in the UK and way wider at present.

Human beings have a choice and may have differing reasons for the choices they make. So I personally will not disassociate the two. It is the people that need to be convinced that their behaviour is inappropriate.

I also will not treat people like they are a thing, a behaviour, which is the same as what the people, that are seeing their greed as more important than people, are doing; so by attaching the behaviour to them as human beings will hopefully help teach them to start seeing us as human beings.

But I agree with what you are saying in the context that the emotions WE feel, such as anger, should only be directed towards the behaviour, so we stay in control of our own actions to prevent forms of violence, or retaliation. But you don’t have to detach the behaviour from the person to achieve this.

Have I made sense? Sorry, it’s a bit long.

I too am against unfair and unjust behaviour and action – but not the people who are carrying them out.

It’s an important distinction to make.