I started a Meta "Micro-Action" on this topic : http://ifwerantheworld.com/we_would/3380 ----------- Nothing is stopping us, I guess, except that many of us may still feel dependent on access to the system which uses the current monetary system ( that is : The power and resources to act to fulfill one's own potential http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty ? ) , and that politicians would need to change laws as to accept alternative currencies as tax. ( that is : Freedom of interference - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty ? ) This may already be happening - see developments regarding "California IOU" : http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1939282/guide_to_accepting_californ... http://www.capradio.org/articles/articledetail.aspx?articleid=8659 Hence my question is : how to build up a critical mass of users ( in a peer production - peer property approach ) for information systems of interdependency as to ensure a system providing us with what we may need to live comfortably. As some of us may know, there are various projects in development for alternative vector information systems. based on gift economics : http://www.altruists.org/projects/ge/ff/ metacurrency : http://www.metacurrency.org/content/open-rules We may have discussed such approaches - I m currently interested in an approach very similar ( and which could use ) metacurrency type of extensible rule formats, for visualizing networked and potentially interdependent "transaction contracts" via graphs. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Patrick Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:
M. Fioretti wrote:
"These bankers are not proposing to loan their money to the world. Rather, they propose creating new money out of thin air..."
I don't understand.
If THEY can create money "out of thin air", what is stopping US from doing the same?
Who gave THEM that authority, and who took it away from US?
Just curious.
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