[wsfii-discuss] Worldchanging article on Complementary, currencies

Thu Oct 6 14:15:16 UTC 2005

On 06/10/05, Josef Davies-Coates <josef at uniteddiversity.com> wrote:
> The whole cash / no cash thing _is_ missing the point, but there is
> still _very much_ a point to complementary currency...

It's simply a different point. You don't have to believe that cash is
near-extinct to get benefits from using a community currency now.
Community currencies stand on their own merits (or otherwise), now and
in the future.

I do believe, however, that the increasingly rapid demise of cash in
the developed world offers new opportunities for community currencies
(perhaps in new forms), but those opportunities will also be exploited
by governments, banks and corporations on their own terms too. They're
already doing this far more effectively right now than anyone from the
CC world.

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Adrian Short