tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.comments2022-12-08T02:33:27.794-08:00New Currency FrontiersAlan Rosenblithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12508818912677197006noreply@blogger.comBlogger156125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-63551372042199686932013-06-18T11:55:06.998-07:002013-06-18T11:55:06.998-07:00However, the "twollar" thing totally fai...However, the "twollar" thing totally failed. They only ran for a few months and stopped in 2010, it seems, begging for a corporate sponsor "to take it to the next level". Just another dotcom dustheap by the roadside.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-11080674036034038682012-11-16T22:21:08.707-08:002012-11-16T22:21:08.707-08:00Sorry Guys but a bunch of bull shit here. Cash is ...Sorry Guys but a bunch of bull shit here. Cash is king and ALWAYS will be as will gold be. This idea of virtual world and virtual world money is great for the day dreamers, visionaries, right brained thinkers and theorists but is not practical in our future societies. We have fought too many wars and overcame to much disdain to allow this P2P to happen. Just like if electric cars WERE ALLOWED on a world stage to be integrated all over the world on an electric infrastructure and grid model there will be those people who will still want to drive a gas powered vehicle . In the year 3021 the 69 Mustang with a full tank of high octane will be worth more than a ship flying us to a space station. Get it.RickyRedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08573271788513661492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-68702085375592771232012-11-06T15:26:59.570-08:002012-11-06T15:26:59.570-08:00Creating a futures contract, and then future's...Creating a futures contract, and then future's market on possibility wealth would be to price behavior change and its likelihood. That is worth doing.kevin joneshttp://www.socialcapitalmarkets.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-35713127463027485672012-07-03T13:19:53.111-07:002012-07-03T13:19:53.111-07:00A revolutionary new currency coming up:
http://ww...A revolutionary new currency coming up:<br /><br />http://www.indiegogo.com/AutonomousRisingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-54821963689032517962012-01-13T23:07:34.302-08:002012-01-13T23:07:34.302-08:00A complementary currency. Electronic but local.
A...A complementary currency. Electronic but local.<br /><br />A currency that can be earned by the mutual approval of good values and behavior among its users. And you can save and spend, of course.<br /><br /><br />http://www.kapitaltruth.org<br /><br />http://personales.ya.com/kapitalverdad<br /><br /><br />I hope at least you like "Fifty Island" *pps stories.<br /><br /><br />Thanks, best wishes.Francisco Ortegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11143857140259759809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-4938093147120368552012-01-02T13:47:30.775-08:002012-01-02T13:47:30.775-08:00You are now on the path to enlightenment! Congratu...You are now on the path to enlightenment! Congratulations and condolences!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-73466469460627971942011-10-10T16:03:57.593-07:002011-10-10T16:03:57.593-07:00about living organisms, if you haven't heard a...about living organisms, if you haven't heard about it yet, check Holacracy as a governance tool, it is exactly about making people realise, their organisation is a living organism with a mission and purpose and a role to play that is not the sum of its participant's desire.Etienne zoupichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02247770287033222030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-45921895305906689472011-08-11T01:45:22.636-07:002011-08-11T01:45:22.636-07:00I came to this post via P2P. I'm thoroughly in...I came to this post via P2P. I'm thoroughly intrigued by it and recognize the validity of the cancer/biological approach. But I don't know anything about currencies - can you explain how currencies can help us change the DNA of our social organisms, to someone who doesn't know anything about it?Nancy Boulicaulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16769603089862376229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-29125920505340955672011-07-22T05:26:06.978-07:002011-07-22T05:26:06.978-07:00Thank you for this article.
You are hitting some...Thank you for this article. <br /><br />You are hitting some very important truths here. Just wish we were further ahead already encoding those flows properly ...Sepp Hasslbergerhttp://blog.hasslberger.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-54426170627759676102011-07-22T02:49:08.945-07:002011-07-22T02:49:08.945-07:00“Information is the currency of democracy” (Thomas...“Information is the currency of democracy” (Thomas Jefferson)<br /><br />"Creativity is the currency of the People." (Ian McCormick)Dr Ian McCormickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15274889508215448048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-48393062106522442072011-04-10T08:08:22.753-07:002011-04-10T08:08:22.753-07:00"Do you know what cells that stop sharing the..."Do you know what cells that stop sharing their resources with the rest of the body are called? Cancer"<br /><br />Does that mean that those of us who chose not to share our wealth with the "common" will be dealt with on a governmental level? We are being equated to a cancer. To make a body healthy again a cancer has to be dealt with. <br /><br />Didn't we learn from an earlier marxist system that marxism only works if you force people. Otherwise people will seek incentive. The return to the hunter gatherer system implied in this article will only work by erradicating a large part of the worlds population, or putting people under a tyrannical system of compulsion.Petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-24152505011356672052011-04-05T09:58:33.597-07:002011-04-05T09:58:33.597-07:00Reminds me of what Paul Krafel in Seeing Nature ca...Reminds me of what Paul Krafel in Seeing Nature calls 'the fit'. By observing nature you see how all things fit with others in harmonious balance. <br /><br />What is our harmonious fit when we lack to acknowledge that nature is not here for us. Its here for ALL sentinent beings.Fernanda Ibarrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16116469843475382108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-58035991989436897862011-04-03T13:22:44.342-07:002011-04-03T13:22:44.342-07:00Beatuiflly written Arthur. I will be sharing this ...Beatuiflly written Arthur. I will be sharing this with lots of people to help them begin to understand "the economy" better.LifeSMythhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16878739678429594436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-63968639771298079152011-04-03T13:04:51.685-07:002011-04-03T13:04:51.685-07:00What I also love about that same quote is the way ...What I also love about that same quote is the way it shows how the broken relationship is rooted in the expressive capacity of representational language -- subject/object grammars.<br /><br />This is why the work we're doing on new expressive capacities for a flow language are so important!Arthur Brockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13500413376115454289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-20950513100971359052011-04-03T12:50:32.662-07:002011-04-03T12:50:32.662-07:00Here's an excellent related article that gives...Here's an excellent related article that gives some more depth in thinking about the deep difference between a commons based reality and the current paradigm: <br /><br />http://p2pfoundation.net/State,_the_Market,_and_some_Preliminary_Question_about_the_Commons<br /><br />My favorite quote from it:<br /><br />"The shift that we need now to accomplish politically, not only theoretically, is to change the dominant wisdom from the absolute domination of the subject (as owner or State) over the object (territory or more generally the environment) to a focus on the relationship of the two (subject-nature). We need a new common sense recognizing, outside of the Western liberal hubris, that each individual's survival depends on its relationship with others, with the community, with the environment."Eric Harris-Braunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10322749596471278565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-41477873143114734812011-04-03T10:22:31.636-07:002011-04-03T10:22:31.636-07:00I like these posts, and the great examples of posi...I like these posts, and the great examples of positive economies, but I wish you would give a tangible example of what our economy is doing wrong and break that apart. Talk about why as part of the analysis. Perhaps you are preaching to the choir on this blog, but what about abstraction and speculation is bad? What about greed? Is it possible money is being redistributed, just not in the way you'd like? I'd like to see our economy analysed using the rules of the commons in a detailed manner, not just the biological economies, in order to wrap my head around the issues more.Rebeccahttp://twitter.com/kontrarynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-42920458139158567952011-02-13T16:41:13.799-08:002011-02-13T16:41:13.799-08:00A true currency circulates as it represents a “uni...A true currency circulates as it represents a “unit of account” that has an intrinsic stored value that is accepted in the marketplace. For example take a look at WIR Bank in Switzerland, an excellent example of a complementary currency.CC Banchttp://www.ccbanc.ccnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-35904630322743183032010-12-04T14:14:08.562-08:002010-12-04T14:14:08.562-08:00This comment was introduced when I was in college....This comment was introduced when I was in college. A couple years have passed and information has rapidly evolved. I slowly moved away from this concept as I got involved with work after graduation. Does anyone know if any of these ideas have gotten off the drawing board and more into main street?Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337011548368136956noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-6994391241454423972010-11-30T16:23:23.321-08:002010-11-30T16:23:23.321-08:00Heres our attempt to create a gift economy with gi...Heres our attempt to create a gift economy with gift circles<br /><br />http://opencollaboration.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/gift-circle-overview-of-project/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-61802644077572767432010-09-08T10:40:48.214-07:002010-09-08T10:40:48.214-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-46653184011783696522010-07-15T02:24:57.504-07:002010-07-15T02:24:57.504-07:00A wonderful account of the challenges we face and ...A wonderful account of the challenges we face and the opportunities they afford us! Thank you for your efforts, they chime very nicely with my thinking on all this.<br /><br />I posted on my Econosophy blog yesterday (a very long article) something quite similar to what you have written here, and have written often about money as a linear and coagulating flow that does not come close to matching the elegance and diversity of flows seen elsewhere in nature. For example, in my struggles to understand money from an ecological or systems point of view, I have come to see 'profit' as an uneven distribution of money in the economy, or an unhealthy pooling, which exacerbates scarcity, fear of want, and hoarding generally. My attemtps to communicate this perception with folk at Naked Capitalism fell on deaf ears, so it's very refreshing to find a like-minded thinker here.<br /><br />I notice Nick mentioned The Venus Project. They interest me greatly too, and have inspired my own efforts to understand and transform. I think though that currencies of some form will always be with us, though so different from how we have and use money today as to be barely comparable. The Venus Project's correlation of money with scarcity is a powerful observation though, such that I fail to see a use for money where we have abundance. Air cannot be monetized, for example. Perhaps we should adopt a similar relationship with things like food, water, shelter and transport etc., as the Venus Project suggests. Maybe, as time goes on, we can remove more and more of life from the need for money in a reversal of all that has happened over the millennia since farming began. (No, I don't seek a return to primitivism!)Tobyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16258136994278139356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-20677338580424541982010-06-23T02:21:27.276-07:002010-06-23T02:21:27.276-07:00Great article, maybe you should check this out:
ht...Great article, maybe you should check this out:<br /><a rel="nofollow">http://www.thevenusproject.com/</a>Nickhttp://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-29210726888096872652010-03-05T13:08:25.680-08:002010-03-05T13:08:25.680-08:00I think you hit on the heart of the matter Guillau...I think you hit on the heart of the matter Guillaume. There are many ways to measure efficiency. In this particular case, I am talking about the feedback loops that best support the development of humanity. Would a parent charging their child for breakfast support the development of that child? Obviously not. A child needs nurture and unconditional love. Under these circumstances, a child can best discover her own gifts. A community that supports people in discovering their gifts will clearly have greater output in terms of value than one that doesn't. The community must be free to measure that value as they they choose, so they can get a meaningful representation of themselves. That is what I mean by efficiency.Alan Rosenblithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12508818912677197006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-77148806951789690722010-03-05T07:54:53.697-08:002010-03-05T07:54:53.697-08:00Heres my idea of how you can begin to transform a ...Heres my idea of how you can begin to transform a town/city into a gift economy. http://opencollaboration.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/on-growing-a-local-gift-economy/<br /><br />The basic idea is to have a network of gift circles where a tribe forms around each gift circle, and their is also flow between the gift circles.alphahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12314627558435110270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8737138830085975606.post-19975205599001833412010-03-04T14:05:38.744-08:002010-03-04T14:05:38.744-08:00How do you measure the efficiency of the allocatio...How do you measure the efficiency of the allocation of naturally or human produced resources?Guillaume Lhttp://lebleu.orgnoreply@blogger.com