I am trying to work out a "game" and I was wondering your perspective.
By game I mean a new complementary currency for the community I am a
part of in Seattle. In short my I hope to introduce a catalyst into
the morphogenetic field of my community to create a type of open
source economy of abundance.
If you have any resources or concepts, I would love to hear them. As
for below I am just going to ramble on about my theories of the games
operational system. Feel free to skip it.......
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I have a novel idea of how to input the new information, or physical
voting system we call currency, into the community. There would be a
type of festival with a bunch of local vendors. For instance I am an
herbalist and would sell my tinctures. People would by my product for
10 dollars. I would give them the potion, and 10 of the new currency.
I would not take the new currency until the next day.
A wide variety of services are being paid for, but also gifted in a
way. Then the next day the real trading will begin. Another important
key is this currency would be connected to a website so you can see
what services these currency can be exchanged for. Also above all else
this currency expires. The community would hold this type of economic
fest.
So I am sure there are a lot of logic gaps in this game. My main
question is about control. Would there need to be a type of community
panel to be a watchdog of the system or is there some type of open
source platform that can implemented? I am really reaching for
abstract and innovative concepts. Do you have any suggested reading or
resources?
Please feel free to tribe me with links and some abstract theories. I really believe an alternative curancy, no mater how flawed, is still a step in the right direction.
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Re: economy of abundance
Thu, June 7, 2007 - 1:54 PMI dunno, but sounds like time banking to me.
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Re: economy of abundance
Thu, February 7, 2008 - 5:33 PMI also think an alternative currency is a good idea. We then don't have to rely on the National currencies when they face problems.
I am trying to get backing for a currency I want to launch called Cambiare (Italian for Change).