I may be a financial waldenponder. I’m finding the story of George Dyson in his kayak, living largely outside the cash economy, curiously inspiring. I’d like that except without the camping in arctic cold. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1234714328994988035?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1234714328994988035 …
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How do we get off this money-based economic architecture? Why are we at mercy of a bunch of bickering old people designing a 2T pig trough and everybody forced to either turn pig fighting for their line item or die? Something deeply stupid about this. Great filter level stupid.
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Part of me wants to buy a bunch of gift certificates to band-aid the businesses I like Part of me wants to just lean in here and figure out why life must stop because money must stop. Classic money is too rigid an instrument to flow around anti-pandemic regimes.
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I’ve never really liked the idea of money, even while wishing I had more of it during my most financially distressed.
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Emotional labor in times over Covid.
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Barter almost requires physical contact. It's hard to avoid the power of the dollar's spooky action-at-a-distance right now. OTOH keeping the culture spinning is almost an anti-economic activity. My kid & his friends hold daily Minecraft playdates now; the $ spend is nothing.
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Why is barter the only alternative to money? That’s just a failure of imagination. Software should allow us to transcend the bloody stupid money/barter dichotomy. Solve the coincidence of wants problem directly.
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My mother-in-law sewed a bunch of diy masks from fabric ends. She's just stuck them in a box at the end of the driveway with a "Take One" sign on it.
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Remember when there was a slump? And what did we have a slump of? Money. There was no less wealth, no less energy, no less raw materials than there were before, but it's like you came to build a house one day, and they said "sorry, you can't build this house today, no inches.”
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That’s Alan Watts btw
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