On the website we have both a short description and a short video introduction. We are also about to release a 5h documentary in a few months time.

Despite that I will summarize what TROM is about, for you:

The society we live in, from China to USA, Europe to Russia, from communism to socialism, capitalism, and so forth, is simply a society of trade. From cryptocurrencies to ads, to money or data collection, pretty much everything in our society is driven and based on trade. A simple practice that made sense hundreds of years ago, but today it drives more destruction than anything else. It makes us all put profit over anything else. And thus, we argue, trade is what drives humans to create most of the problems we see in the world today: climate change, waste, slavery, corruption, data collection, you name it.

That being said, we argue that you simply cannot make this game fair, we should move beyond it. So, what if we start to create trade-free goods and services to push aside the trade-based ones, killing the bad incentives that push humans to create so many problems.

This is TROM in a nutshell.

You have complex questions and expect for very simplistic answers. I don't think it can work like that. We argue that the most important part is to understand "the problem" not to come up with any solutions. Like the only way to, for example, cure cancer, is to understand what cancer is. We give this example with the germs. Before discovering these microscopic organisms many hundreds of millions of humans died since they had 0 solutions for those infections. The moment they understood where these infections come from (little tiny organisms, germs) they came up with a lot of solutions: vaccines, washing their hands, some pills, boiling the water before consumption, you name it.

So we want to make sure people understand that "trade is the origin of most problems".

For example when you ask "Is Trade Free a version of socialism?" then what do you mean by socialism? What Robert Owen started in the 18hundreds as "socialism"? What some tribes proclaim today to be socialism?

Trade-Free means we should create goods and services that ask nothing in return. Like Wikipedia, Doctors Without Borders, Open Source software, and so forth. No ideology behind really, just a "humane and humanitarian" practice.