Re: [ox-en] Re: Open Money?
- From: Michael Linton <lcs mars.ark.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:03:34 -0800
On January 20, 2002 03:46 pm, B. Fallenstein wrote:
.........................I'm understanding the
open money people as saying that albeit accepted community money may be
more or less limited, it will not be *scarce* to most and most of the
time, because if you generally "behave well" on the system, nobody will
have a problem if in some situations you 'generate' a little more money
than usual (going further 'in debt'). Thus if you "behave well," you
will always have enough money, even in situations where in today's
society you'd be out of luck.
Yes, that's the kernel - your word in your community is your money
...........................So
in the advanced, money-based exchange societies, if we look at the
situations where things are acquired for their use value, we see that
this happens in only one direction: in the other direction goes money,
which is (today) completely without use value.
Yes again - and It follows from this that the patterns of movement of
"things" - goods and services - and "money" are identical and recirpocal.
The patterns that the money can follow determine the patterns that the
"things" move in.
http://www.openmoney.org/fiwg/brief.html#jump12
Conventional money moves in, around and out of a community, and is entirely
suited to import / export economies. Community money moves around and
preferentially supports wealth generation in that community.
My point is that if we look only at how the things with use value move,
they are *already* in unidirectional flow. I'm having this diagram in
mind, where the movements of useful goods are green arrows and the
movements of money (or stock options or whatever) are golden arrows.
Then, in an animation, the golden arrows fade away. The remaining green
arrows show a rough approximation of what a GPL society could look like ;-)
Nice mind Benja
yours
Michael
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