I started a Meta "Micro-Action" on this topic :<div><br></div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><a href="http://ifwerantheworld.com/we_would/3380">http://ifwerantheworld.com/we_would/3380</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>-----------</div><div><br></div><div>Nothing is stopping us, I guess,</div><div><div><br></div><div><div><div>except that many of us may still feel dependent on access to the system which uses the current monetary system ( that is : T<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; ">he power and resources to act to fulfill one's own potential</span>�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_liberty</a>��? )�,</div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>and that politicians would need to change laws as to accept alternative currencies as tax.</div>
<div>( that is : Freedom of interference -�<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_liberty</a>�? )</div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>
<br></div><div>This may already be�happening�- see developments regarding "California IOU" :</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1939282/guide_to_accepting_california_ious.html">http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1939282/guide_to_accepting_california_ious.html</a></div>
<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.capradio.org/articles/articledetail.aspx?articleid=8659">http://www.capradio.org/articles/articledetail.aspx?articleid=8659</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As some of us may know, there are various projects in development for alternative vector information systems.</div><div><br></div><div>based on gift economics :�<a href="http://www.altruists.org/projects/ge/ff/">http://www.altruists.org/projects/ge/ff/</a></div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div>metacurrency :�<a href="http://www.metacurrency.org/content/open-rules">http://www.metacurrency.org/content/open-rules</a></div><div><br>
</div><div>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,</div><div>for visualizing networked and potentially interdependent "transaction contracts" via graphs.</div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br></div><div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Patrick Anderson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:agnucius@gmail.com">agnucius@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">M. Fioretti wrote:<br>
> "These bankers are not proposing to loan their money to the<br>
> world. Rather, they propose creating new money out of thin air..."<br>
<br>
</div>I don't understand.<br>
<br>
If THEY can create money "out of thin air", what is stopping US from<br>
doing the same?<br>
<br>
Who gave THEM that authority, and who took it away from US?<br>
<br>
Just curious.<br>
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