Not sure Crocodile, if less consumption would be such a bad thing. Do you really think that consumerism as it is at the moment is a good and fair thing? Look at what it is doing to the environment and at how unfair it is!

If I look objectively at my wardrobe for example, I can see that I only need at most 10% of the clothes that are in there. People don't NEED massive houses, or a car if they live in a city. We don't NEED a gazillion gadgets and luxury designer items. We only think we need it because of advertisments.

I am sure there were lots of seriously frustrating problems in the USSR and personally I would not want to live in the way that people did there. But at least noone was starving and everyone had a roof over their head, and there was no exploitation or globalism needed to keep that economy going. But frankly I would not want to live like a working class person in Britain or the USA either, and certainly not like a regular person in the third world.
So far as I am concerned, globalist economy is both unfair and unsustainable in a longer perspective.

Fixing the currency to gold would be a step in the right direction according to me. And if there should be a currency to tag others to, it seems that the Chinese Yuan would be more reasonable although I don't favour that myself.