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RE: It Takes A Village so what's wrong with asking for help?
@jan23com I would love to check your post out. You are right it will take a total change of all the systems we've been building off of for the last few thousand years lol but compassion can prevail!
Maybe ¡ profit can be seen as not-cash, but kudos. A ubundu bank-less, wherein the Bank is a computer listing of skills, services rendered and services required, and providers of skills negotiate their worth/value as compared, with expertise and previous jobs/conditions. Art becomes a valued exchange alongside working skills, and listening is a paid position or job done as service to the family elderly involved. The unit of exchange being one's listed worth as a community server. Any Currency needed for extraneous dealing with non-village constituent businesses, would be a community decision of expenditure from Village account. That account would accumulate by a tithing of service the village provides for other communities or extraneous businesses. Umm¿ Yeah!
yesss! where can I sign up?? This sounds like the furure I want to live in!
Ubundu, is happening in some villages in Africa somewhere if memory serves. I read an article months ago, early last year. It's some sort of Bank-less barter society. I've not got full details, but it sounded good enough for me. You must remember however that there seem to be people who don't understand the word enough. They accumulate 'money', and out it in a vault, and set up to accumulate even more, as if the ownership of money were an invisible safety-net against the vicissitudes of life. I do understand that it can be on a short term, but once one gets beyond the ability to hand count it, then it becomes an almost meaningless bulk that has no purpose.
I couldn't agree more.. I mean you can't take this crap/money to the grave with you, so what is the point of having more than you can ever possibly use? Makes zero sense to me, too.