Wörgl is an Austrian town that has successfully experimented in 1932 an alternative form of exchange with a local currency.
A movie has been made about this story that you can watch here:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6Uz4PRWr3ns
The English subtitles are not very accurate but it is easy to understand the dialogs nonetheless.
The experiment of Wörgl has been inspired by the work of Silvio Gesell:
@leo "...NOT BY FORCE. WITH FAITH"
I promise to give you / pay you back using in my energy, from favours / chores / whatever near or far.
- FreeSchool
That is what we need to start with. Bit by bit approach and small agreements
Some of us already give and can continue. Please don't overgive also but moderate by talking and make it fit using brain power and faith in freeing each other (away from money-only things).
Use money AND something mixed in with money *diluting it* all the while, reducing money / bank effects while siphoning back from industry's previous success (gained by all of us) and getting better culture in return (sharing people) in the future...
IF YOU ARE WITH THIS VIBE... FAVOURITE THIS POST.
Anytime this makes sense favourite it. Please DM any point as I wish to include a way for everyone to be satisfied / agreeable / flaxible.
By still using money right now we have less over time. but rather than 0 money we actually use it slowly and then have more of a cultured workforce in exchange...
we reverse polarity, we use our own kind (I believe there are those that don't have faith in humanity or believe in themselves)
Let whatever from that happen better than price wars and people losing / getting priced out at the end by the empires that coral and have us land-trapped, not able to pay bills this winter / every winter. Let us not fund greed...
There is opportunity to go to mountains and perhaps do the same while working together but whatever you do away from city or within it, slowly changing morals and selling out less is the way. Realise starvation is on the horizon but also their method and in the country you can just about survive on food + little money, I am proof of that.
Together some of us can cover others (at least 1 other) and try this like couchsurfing was and other hosting sites provide other to work away MUCH MORE CHEAPLY while discomforts are harmonising ourselves and accepting others...
All ways lead to starvation using their ways... so one might gain better chance punching forward together using *another way at the same time*...
RISE UP MORALLY
Right now paying rent is a loss all around so I start by suggesting sharing accommodation (some with money and some without)
Get one person in and set basics even if other have to pay for food - SAVE THEM MONEY, TALK ABOUT IT
- SATISFY YOURSELF BY HELPING THEM... AND ASK OUR ECO-SYSTEM FOR WHAT YOU NEED
I;ll help using whatever skills for the right causes to snowball that
And don't force each other too hard or even yourself - it's for us to take on shoulder for the years of cheating that happening.
Talk, argue, then let it rest... Solve and move forward. You're not going to get any decent manure from banks to really grow something properly to give the future apart from debt.
PLEASE RE-READ THIS.
@leo
"...NOT BY FORCE. WITH FAITH"...
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6Uz4PRWr3ns&t=46m31s
This means to start doing things without the paper more often and by agreement or "faith" in each other almost only...
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6Uz4PRWr3ns&t=20m48s
What is hard to suppress or track is the goodwill and faith towards humanity in *what we do* and *how we do it*, especially without papers.
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The rest of what I said before is like a emotional speech and some ideas how to implement the above. This post is mostly the summary.
@leo Welcome to FreeSchool... :)
-How can I help you...?
-Can you create a way I can help?
-How can we encourage others to do more without it being awkward? (usually system make it easier but perhaps just making it obvious how to help is the key like an open-help system / volunteer eco-system)...
@freeschool
I will think about it. For now, I am pushing things this way locally where I live and share online what seems relevant to me in terms of design.
@leo Let me accept thinking about it
BUT suggest a way to keep some things going (at the same time as thinking about it)...,
WHICH IS:
- involving your local circle in a variety of ways (sub-suggestions are below)
- Encourage / Show them Mastodon (perhaps add accounts) for quality like-minded topics (for then discussing locally or participation themselves online more than mainstream twitter etc)
- collect a few usernames from Mastodon (I suggest myself or some others) so they can see those that are in the same field or topic VERY and practice higher level safer ping pong about topic about current creation of life using the system of behavioural patterns and things it's tied to.
For example see this thread which is showing people's view on what I started as topic
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/109001441003353628
I think increasingly comes back to thinking about these things now or later so better to align or test your community sooner to see what they think AND think for themself with others as practice for real life or on Mastodon more safely.
(a kind of 2-in-1 for the tech side creating an account for themselves and social side of interacting with others more logically)
- I would be happy to do a online chat too to introduce anything and you could also moderate / steer small meeting using Jitsi (I could be guest or moderate it with you)... I feel this is real 'live' work and can say more what I have done well or seen done well... it compliments and help to have more-distant people too but useful as external input as it allows reflection and contrast to existing perceptions without battle. It's also kind of like therapy in the way people are catching up with 10's of years of clever tricks and systems but also to see the patterns themselves and talk about it (not give all answers too fast)
What do you think about these things / could we test it and even have controlled group? Happy to audio chat anytime.
@leo The Natural Economic Order [Book by Silvio Gessel]
Founder of Freiwirtschaf (or Free Economy / Free Enterprise)
Book is online as HTML [*awesome* / print?]
https://www.appropriate-economics.org/ebooks/neo/neo.htm
His economic prescriptions fit within the anti-capitalist free market framework of Liberal socialism.
Video Clip of book: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6Uz4PRWr3ns&t=17m09s
Free Economy or Freiwirtschaft
- Johann Silvio Gesell
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvio_Gesell
Johann Silvio Gesell (German: 17 March 1862 – 11 March 1930) was a German-Argentine economist, merchant, and founder of Freiwirtschaf.
(or Free Economy / Free Enterprise).
@freeschool
Yes, sharing sponaneously common values and goods without needing to keep track on it is a good way to improve our lives while keeping the risk of backlashs from the technostate lower than with other more sophisticated and trackable solutions. It can start small, and when it grows, it can become extremely powerful. All it needs at first is a bit of faith to make the first step.