cut to the chase: "legal tender" is the prob, here. 95% percent of financial trades are speculation. 5% actually purchase goods and services.
why bother with lawyers and laws anyway? they're gonna be buried in increasing complexity: y2k + internationalition of the 'net. whose laws? what language? in 10 years, the web will speak more chinese than english.
copyrights in the u.s., thanks to mickey mouse, have been extended another 20 years, to what, 80-90 years? will we even be around that long? http://www.inetworld.net/keelhaul/stats.htm
why attatch innovation to the url of almighty greed?
why reformat ip laws when we might reformat money itself? it might be worth more if it churns faster, if hoarding isn't rewarded. Better money might even enable a *sustainable* OS for trading our ideas.
quotes from Bernard Lietaer:
"once you have decided to have a community currency, why not use the best design available? It is important that community currencies concentrate exclusively on the two key functions of money--standard of value and means of exchange--and therefore discourage the use of this money as a store of value or a means of speculation. http://www.transaction.net/money/cc/c c05.html
"the Darwinian vision of nature as a struggle for life simply has been completely blind to the many more frequent cases of co-evolution, of symbiosis, of joint development and harmonious coexistence which prevail in all domains of evolution." http://www.transaction.net/mon ey/book/rethink2b.html
"The security of these systems depends on good communications--the communities are self-policing to the degree that members can see the transaction records of other members, and people who take from the system without contributing to it are soon weeded out. People who have a good record, over a period of time, of paying their goods and services back into the system, are likely to be able to be granted credit for others--buying goods or services in excess of their account balance, then paying back into the balance by providing goods and services as they are requested by others." -Howard Rheingold http://www.transaction.net/press/tom orrow.html
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cut to the chase: "legal tender" is the prob, here.
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95% percent of financial trades are speculation.
5% actually purchase goods and services.
why bother with lawyers and laws anyway? they're
gonna be buried in increasing complexity: y2k +
internationalition of the 'net. whose laws? what
language? in 10 years, the web will speak more
chinese than english.
copyrights in the u.s., thanks to mickey mouse,
have been extended another 20 years, to what,
80-90 years? will we even be around that long?
http://www.inetworld.net/keelhaul/stats
why attatch innovation to the url of almighty greed?
why reformat ip laws when we might reformat money
itself? it might be worth more if it churns faster,
if hoarding isn't rewarded. Better money might
even enable a *sustainable* OS for trading our ideas.
quotes from Bernard Lietaer:
"once you have decided to have a community currency,
why not use the best design available? It is important
that community currencies concentrate exclusively
on the two key functions of money--standard of value
and means of exchange--and therefore discourage the
use of this money as a store of value or a means of
speculation.
http://www.transaction.net/money/cc/c c05.html
"the Darwinian vision of nature as a struggle for
life simply has been completely blind to the many
more frequent cases of co-evolution, of symbiosis,
of joint development and harmonious coexistence
which prevail in all domains of evolution."
http://www.transaction.net/mon ey/book/rethink2b.html
"The security of these systems depends on good
communications--the communities are self-policing
to the degree that members can see the transaction
records of other members, and people who take from
the system without contributing to it are soon
weeded out. People who have a good record, over a
period of time, of paying their goods and services
back into the system, are likely to be able to be
granted credit for others--buying goods or services
in excess of their account balance, then paying back
into the balance by providing goods and services as
they are requested by others." -Howard Rheingold
http://www.transaction.net/press/tom orrow.html