alternative currency
30 Jan 2022 - 17 Jun 2023
- For awhile I was helping out the Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank, which is essentially an alternative currency scheme where people can trade their labor.
- This is about as close as I've gotten to any anarchism activism over the last few decades, and I have to say I didn't enjoy it much, because anarchist organizing is an enormous PITA and I wasn't committed enough to go through all the meetings and conversations.
- That was also before Blockchain and crypto-currencies came along ... now when you talk to people about alternative currencies they will have a very different image from hippies trading massages for fermentation classes. Pity. The exact same thing happened to the very word "libertarian", so there's some cosmic law at work here.