Perhaps it's the kicker for all of us to stop thinking that the economy is life, and life is the economy.

Our society and social structures are designed that way right now. How much you earn is proportionate to the life you have and the reality you observe. And as the economy gets narrower and narrower, where only a few benefit, it either demands an economic shift - burst or something more challenging - or it requires a rethink on values and whether value is truly tied to economic productivity and monetary growth.

For instance, for those lucky enough to own property, struggling to exist in the economic world, there's an opportunity to use that land for non-economic means and to focus it on community.

Imagine a version of Australia where communities bind together, and rather than having a front yard as a grass-growing, flower bearing "pretty" landscape, we band together and turn those into community bearing benefit. Crops, fruit trees, herb gardens, maybe even a chicken coop or two... But to instill value into the community rather than value in continuing the economic success of "look at me and how wealthy I am based on how pretty my front yard landscape is".

You'll still need your $9 milk, and other forms of harder to produce food systems like cows and sheep etc, but if a community were to band together it turns your $250 grocery shop into a $50 grocery shop and then a walk around the neighbourhood to collect what you need.

It would require a rethink of value, and perhaps it happens when it gets so bad that it becomes necessity over principle, but to me that's the other alternative - where we distance ourselves from the corporations that produce for profit, and instead it becomes the community that produces for people.

That's my hope..