[wsfii-discuss] Worldchanging article on Complementary currencies

Tue Oct 4 16:05:48 UTC 2005

You'll prolly think this is bonkers, but you might be interested anyway!
One of my chums is building software to administer LETS schemes and they
did a panel at the conference I was at over the weekend . . .

Mamading Ceesay wrote:

>Hi,
>
>One of my favourite blogs has a post on complementary currencies.  I
>don't necessarily agree with everything that is said in it but it is a
>good starting point for discussion and introducing people to the
>ideas.
>
>My favourite quote is "It allows you to take a systems-thinking
>approach to social engineering, instead of a central-planning approach
>(which historically requires significant overhead, fails to respond to
>change rapidly, and has difficulty being comprehensive.)"
>
>Systems thinking is exactly what makes me interested in CC as a way of
>dealing with issues that the market has failed to handle.
>
>http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003575.html
>
>--
>Mamading Ceesay
>
>"Isn't a state that keeps files on innocent persons a police state?"
>-- David Mery - Innocent In London http://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html
> Radio Interview with David Mery
>http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/6963.php
>
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