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The Future of Money Depends on Busting Fairy Tales About Its Past
- applecore 11y agoIf you're interested in the history of this topic, check out Debt: The First 5000 Years[1] by David Graeber and The Philosophy of Money[2] by Georg Simmel, a sociologist whose main work was on money as a social phenomenon. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Philosophy_of_Money
- skilesare 11y agoThanks for the recommendations.
- skilesare 11y agoThis is a great summary. All value is future value and the only real way to 'store value' is to pump water uphill(or equivalent). I've tried to address amny of the authors points with http://Catallax.info http://Catallax.info -Rather than adding new ways to interact with the bank ledgers, change the power dynamics of who controls the ledgers Build on Bitcoin or etherium -Change who gets to issue money on those ledgers Everyone is a bank. -Change what it is redeemable for. I don't think changing the object is as important as changing incentives and giving people reasons to spend local. -Change the internal properties of money. We use demurrage. -Alter the financial institutions that dominate the standard money system. We offer quasi-government accounts and self elected taxation to find those.